And fifth, the ability of others to free-ride on the plaintiff would so reduce the incentive to produce the product or service that its existence or quality would be substantially threatened.
We should mention that we were shooting with one of 11 prototype RX1's in existence -- though, given the quality results we obtained, it's safe to say that production RX1's will give you the same picture quality when they go on sale in December.
Since NCR's cash registers were of an unusually high quality--and thus lasted essentially forever--there had sprung into existence a lively market for used machines.