Re: Re: Re: Brands, their material base? was Re: My Take onCompetition

2000-06-16 Thread Jim Devine
Michael P. wrote: >how about the owners' of genes? What if Amazon's patents hold? It could >actually become a profitable company perhaps. 1) how big are the profits of the companies that hold IP compared to those that don't? 2) how does the pricing power of companies that have IP depress real

Re: Re: Brands, their material base? was Re: My Take onCompetition

2000-06-16 Thread Michael Perelman
Doug, how about the owners' of genes? What if Amazon's patents hold? It could actually become a profitable company perhaps. As for Nike, it only owns a brand. Brand's are susceptible to the sort of attacks that the anti-sweatshop people have made. I think that that movement cut into their pr