> It can simply lift the innovations of others, and because it can undercut their prices, it can put them out of business. I agree that what amounts to dumping

> It can simply lift the innovations of others, and because it can undercut their prices, it can put them out of business. I agree that what amounts to dumping (pricing products below the cost of production) should be illegal. Nor should a company be forced out of business by the effort required to prove illegal act(s) by a competitor. But it's not like customers are getting completely screwed by a "competitor" duplicating a product (provided the pricing isn't malicious towards the original manufacturer): they're getting low prices for presumably reasonable quality goods.