And in any case, not everybody wants a super-intellectual approach, Miss Foster finds.

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Sander's intellectual approach to design and her dedication to integrity, however, have been sorely missed in fashion in the last decade, when so many companies have forsaken quality for quantity, and beautiful products for beautiful profits.

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Rather than enacting hasty laws to protect a system that people feel justified in violating, we should consider a better approach to intellectual property.

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All of which makes this a good time to launch a new approach to trading intellectual property, says Gerard Pannekoek, the boss of IPXI, a new financial exchange that lets companies buy, sell and hedge patent rights, just like any other asset.

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But changing the investment approach may simply look like intellectual inconsistency.

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Their selection criteria, blend of intellectual growth and hands-on leadership development and their approach to connecting and empowering the community of ALA students and graduates are atypical and extremely inventive.

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But intellectual-property law experts say the suit represents a novel approach at a time when there are few legal protections for designs on apparel.

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Depending on your degree of cynicism, this approach represents either the embrace of open innovation or covering fire used to obscure a massive intellectual retreat.

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But a Cornell Law School scholar suggests the court should take another approach, one that has been around for at least 250 years over another type of intellectual property that is strikingly similar to a gene sequence: Charts and maps.

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