Re: Tanker drivers

On 18 Jun, 20:22, Adrian <toomany2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
BrianW <brianwhiteh...@xxxxxxxxxxx> gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying:

Similarly, there are loads of law firms all offering similar services
at any particular level, yet charge-out rates (on which salaries
ultimately depend) keep on rising.
Simple. Demand is high from those willing to pay sufficiently large
sums for lawyers. However, demand is low from those willing to pay
anything other than trifling sums for scientific researchers.
Indeed, but I'm not quite sure why that is.

Because rich people and companies like suing each other and like nice
thick contracts. It's how they got rich, and it's how they stay rich.

Hmmm. I'm not quite sure that's right. In my experience, big
companies (and most of my clients are) don't like getting involved in
litigation, and complain bitterly about the huge cost of it. Oddly,
though, despite the fact that virtually all the big companies complain
about the cost of litigation, law firms are able to keep increasing
their rates.

Meanwhile, those self-same rich people and companies wait until there's a
scientific breakthrough that can make 'em richer, then ride roughshod
over the patents - safe in the knowledge that they've got more and better
lawyers than the scientists who discovered it, because the money from
selling the miracle invention is in their pockets, not those of the
scientists.

That is certainly nearer the truth. Also, in the context of a big
company's own patents, it will happily pay vastly higher salaries/fees
to the people who defend their patents than they pay to the guys who
came up with the inventions underlying the patents. Don't know why,
but it's just the way it is.
.

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