For those who missed it, CCIA's Brian Kahin wrote an op
ed for IP Watch last week on the longer term implications of the USTR intervening in an ITC patent ruling involving Apple and Samsung. Kahin explains, the increasingly heated patent battles affecting smartphones, the underlying battle between two different business models and how government intervention could set an unwelcomed precedents:
" The USTR’s disapproval of the ITC order excluding Apple products from the US raises difficult issues about the relationship between public decision-making and private solutions – and invites strategic policymaking by other governments."
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