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Volume 50 ,  Issue 1  (January 2007) table of contents
The patent holder's dilemma: buy, sell, or troll?
COLUMN: Viewpoint table of contents
Pages: 21 - 24  
Year of Publication: 2007
ISSN:0001-0782
Author
Russell Beale  British Computer Society's HCI group and University of Birmingham, U.K.
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

This new take on usability yields desirable (and the absence of undesirable) user behavior,even as it furthers grander corporate goals.





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