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If You Didn't Have Patents, No One Would Bother To Spend Money On Research And Development. But With Patents, If Someone Has A Good Idea And A Competitor Can't Copy It, Then That Competitor Will Have To Think Of Their Own Way Of Doing It. So Then, Instead Of Just One Innovator, You Have Two Or Three People Trying To Do Something In A New Way.

An Inventor's Path Is Chorused With Groans, Riddled With Fist-banging And Punctuated By Head Scratches.

Engineering Is Treated With Disdain, On The Whole. It's Considered To Be Rather Boring And Irrelevant, Yet Neither Of Those Is True.

If You Really Want To Improve Technology, If You Want Things To Work Better And Be Better, You've Got To Protect The Person Who Spends A Lot Of Effort, Money, And Time Developing That New Technology.

The Way The World Is Going, It's Technology Driven. And It Isn't Just Driven By The Old Super Powers, It's Driven By The Far East And New Emerging Economies.