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This is an amazing slide: http://imgur.com/MbIuc.png http://imgur.com/MbIuc.png

• mustpax 16y ago
  Maybe the causality works the other way around. The collective pie is so much smaller in the high-IP industries, people try to hold on to their share of it with much more ferocity (i.e. more lawyers).
• retube 16y ago
  Hmmm. I would have thought automobiles was very high IP. No reference, but don't VW or Audi hold more patents than any other company in the world or something? Or take consumer goods. Unilver, Sony etc submit 100s of 1000s of patents every year. Anyway, that aside, even if this chart is correct, a correlation does not imply any kind of causation. There many be any number of reasons why Food has more money spent on it (perhaps because we need food to survive and music consumption is purely discretionary?)
  • lutorm 16y ago
    Yeah the automobile industry has patents, it sounded like she was talking more about the design aspect.
• lutorm 16y ago
  I wonder how different it would look if it wasn't gross sales but net profit.