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Life has irony, dear readers.
In my wanderings I stumbled upon a hidden, serious, and very frightening issue. This may be the most important column I ever write. As easy as it is to loathe lawyers, not all are bad. At its core, high technology business needs legal protection. From the days of Ben Franklin and Thomas Edison, innovators have depended on the U.S. patent system to protect the unique value they created.