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Posted on: August 20, 2008 5:32 AM, by Chad Orzel
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# 1 | Johan Larson | August 20, 2008 11:56 AM
Myhrvold's idea of running a company that does nothing but generate patents and license them out is interesting. But to patent something, don't you need a working example of it? If so, you can't just have smart people thinking stuff up, you also need engineers and technicians to create the darn things. And I don't see any mention of that in the article.