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Twitter Tweeting
Facebook Photo tagging
Wright Brothers The Wright Company and Curtiss Company formed a patent thicket
in 1917 for fixed-wing flight and gouged it.
Apple Liquid metal (amorphous metal)
Apple Magnetic connectors. They price gouge and bar others from using it
Apple Removed the audio jack, forcing users to use bluetooth.
Apple dominates the bluetooth headphone market. Article.
3D printing Patent trolls gouged the price to $10000
Reebok Collapsable shoe
Sewing machines "Sewing Machines Corporation" formed in 1856 with patent monopoly
MgB2 superconductors Doping with titanium is patented
Smartphones Patent thicket dominated by Samsung and Apple
UFC Octagon-shaped arena. Use of the phrase "The octagon"
Transistor Patent revoked in the interests of national development
Xerox Patent trust for photocopying technology
Video compression MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 are patented
GIF Patented by Unisys. PNG format invented as an alternative
Walmart Self-driving shopping cart
Medical care The American Medical Association holds a legislative monopoly on medical care
Eye care The optometrists hold a legislative monopoly on eye care
Smelting "Hot blast" patented in 1828 by Nielson and gouged
Epipens Mylan holds the patent on the auto-injector and gouges it
Elsevier Online peer review.
In 2009, 3D printers cost $10000 because of patent gouging, particularly the patent for the "fused deposition modeling printing process". Formlab sued by 3D systems and now collects a 8% royalty from them.
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