Interdigital shares are trading sharply lower on a report that bids for the mobile sector intellectual property play are coming in way below previous Street expectations.

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Is it simply a matter of there being a finite number of facial geometries? (You'll note, perhaps, that the Toyota Avalon looks like the latest product from Ford Design.) Was it, as others have suggested, a case of intellectual property and fair play, since Ford at one time owned Aston Martin?

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Moreover, we continue to promote the critical role fathers can play in enhancing the intellectual, emotional, and financial well-being of our sons and daughters.

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Given his reputation as an intellectual bully, many wonder whether Mr Summers can play that role.

ECONOMIST: Barack Obama's economic team

Today, virtually no capital, save intellectual property, is required to put an opinion in play.

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Our prejudice is firmly in favour of a leaner state, but the Republicans need to recognise, as their intellectual forebears did from Adam Smith to Abraham Lincoln, that government has an important role to play in a capitalist economy, providing public goods and a safety net.

ECONOMIST: The presidential campaign

In an age before intellectual specialisation, it was not uncommon for a factory owner to read philosophy or for a doctor to play the flute beautifully.

ECONOMIST: 18th-century science

His skill at word-play, coupled with a self-destructive and fatalistic attitude to life (in a Russian intellectual, no less) lands him a job first as a copywriter, and then as something more sinister.

ECONOMIST: Russian satire

It shows that he is willing to put an intellectual in charge of an important issue. (Stephen Goldsmith, the former mayor of Indianapolis, will play second fiddle to the university professor.) But it also shows that Mr Bush has a shrewd sense of how to use intellectuals to advance his agenda.

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