Word: mousetraps
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...MOUSETRAP IS THE MOST PATENTED DEVICE IN U.S. HISTORY --THE WORLD'S LARGEST MANUFACTURER OF MOUSETRAPS IS WOODSTREAM CORP. IN LITITZ...
Building a Better Mousetrap...
...have built the better mousetrap--the world's best mousetrap, you think. But the world hasn't seemed to have got the message and isn't exactly beating a path to your door. What...
...many as 25,000 would-be inventors each year take the bait, and, quicker than you can say "rags to riches," find themselves caught in a very different kind of mousetrap. Consumer advocates, government regulators and industry experts say that virtually everyone who contacts these firms with dreams of riches will in fact end up poorer. The vast majority of these invention-promotion companies, the experts charge, are nothing but massive scams aimed at often naive and sometimes desperate backyard tinkerers, many of whom have more hope than business acumen. Even the companies that operate within the law rarely provide...
...markets created by innovators and then using whatever tactics necessary (legal or not) to eliminate competition. Gates likes to paint himself as a techno-genius, but he's actually just the bully who got fat eating the real geniuses' lunches. CHRIS ELLENS Nepean, Ont. Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door--including the trustbusters. D. JEAN HAYES Northampton, Mass...