"I wonder if a jury would be interested in those numbers."

More importantly, how can the legislators dealing with patent reform just blow it off?

 There's some amazing information in that article.

 "The patent license fees these big companies pay typically go to support U.S. inventors, who are presumably just the sort of smart and creative people policymakers want to encourage. Denying them a decent income so that large transnational companies, which these are, can spend more on cheaper foreign factories and workers makes little economic sense."

 What would be interesting to know, is the rightful IP license number that equates into the $1.7 trillion.

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