And it's the arts which are going to help us to find new ways of doing things, of making money in the future.

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Hopefully, the outcome will also have a wider impact on patent cases of the future, so companies will spend more time making shiny things for us, and less on courtroom squabbles.

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We can work together to create the jobs of the future by helping small business entrepreneurs, by investing in education, and by making things the world buys.

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