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If Gass wins, he will have been handed a legal monopoly on table saws,
and who knows what else. I suppose you would be in favor of that.

If you look back through this newsgroup, you'd find that I proposed that
Gass should be forced to accept a (mediated) licensing settlement that
would give him a fair return on investment, but would not give him the
blackmail that he now expects.

I'm not sure whether legally institutionalizing armtwisting of a Federal
agency by an inventor, no matter how smart and deserving he might be is a
good idea. This case might be the precedent (if there isn't any other) to
limit extortion by a monopolist. Mind you, I think Gass should be fairly
compensated, and I don't know how much that should be.

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Best regards
Han
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