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Re: Re: Re: Another Reason IH Went Broke
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Posted by Wide Open on January 04, 2004 at 17:15:10 from (209.105.32.37):
In Reply to: Re: Re: Another Reason IH Went Broke posted by map on January 04, 2004 at 15:00:48:
Map, the reason the patented it was so that no other company would have it. What edge does it give them over the competition if all competitors have it also? The reason they developed it was so that they could have something that the competitors did not have, thus hopefully farmers would buy there product, because they were the only ones that had"Snap Coupler" It was the same with Fords 3-point, they patented it so no one else could copy there system. For a while no one but ford had it,and ford did well, once patent expired everyone had it.
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