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With LSA, I believe it suddenly became hot in 2007 because the belcor patent was set to expire.



> With LSA, I believe it suddenly became hot in 2007 because the belcor patent was set to expire.

Which has interesting implications about the extent to which patents help or hinder innovation…




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