Men in Black (Score 2, Informative)

Sorry, this exchange from Men in Black just entered my mind as I read this:

J: How do you guys fund all of this?
K: Oh, we hold the patents on a number of important innovations. See this? This will replace CDs soon.

Ownership is 9/10 of the law... and owning innovative products and techniques make for lucrative cash cows. It's worked for the pharmaceutical companies for years. A friend of mine is a patent attorney; one of his jobs is to figure out how to re-patent a medication once it reaches the 9 year patent limit. This is to prevent a generic from being manufactured.

It's just sad sometimes.