Hope and pray all you want, but the patent wars are far from over.

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We can pray for the justice of our country, but you're the big players we need to achieve it.

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Yet when such a storm decides that it will drop in front of you there's nothing to do but find the best available shelter and pray to be spared.

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But according to Sarah Pray, U.S. coordinator for Publish What You Pay, an international group that for years has fought to make extraction payments more public, the argument that U.S. companies will be at a competitive disadvantage is hogwash.

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"One can recover, but there's no medicine that can help one recover, so you just have to pray that your own body is strong enough, " he said.

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