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> It costs millions of dollars to run these operations

Are you sure? Litigation isn't always expensive if you're doing it in-house.

Lawyer fee is expensive. Discovery is expensive. Patent discovery can run from weeks to months of expert time. Those can quickly add up.

I said 'in-house.' That means lawyers on staff on salaries, not fees to outside counsel.

Work costs money, sure, but I'm skeptical of 'millions of dollars.'

Or even on contingency. That is, lawyers will do this for free and take cut of the payout, if any. The good thing about this model is that nobody wants to waste resources on a fruitless lawsuit, so they will only go ahead with cars that have more merit relatively.

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