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Originally Posted by HarryT
Precisely. In the short term, this may restrict consumer choice, but in the long term it's almost certainly good for the consumer, since it will mean that manufacturers will have to devise innovative devices, not simply copy what other companies have already done.
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This is right.
The "restricting consumer choice" claim is a bit of a canard anyway...patents are *supposed to* prevent knock-offs which, of course, does prevent consumer choice by restricting the right to sell the product to the patent holder.