“We are at the point where companies are really understanding there is a lot of money at stake,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a professor of law and engineering at the University of South Carolina. He expects these commercial opportunities to drive more and more IP cases in the sector. “There is greed and fear. There will be winners and losers and that could happen pretty soon.”"
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