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It is unclear why practicing companies are limited to wireless industries and not required to detail their patent holdings and portfolio organizations. This is a huge study that will cause a ton of work (I'm guessing way more work than your estimates for the largest PAEs and manufacturers). If the FTC is going to the trouble of doing a study, why not get it done right the first time and a) sample a larger number of manufacturers, in b) a more diverse area of manufacturing, and c) get identical information? The FTC will be in a much better position to analyze, compare, and otherwise report on findings. Without doing so, any report risks looking like so many others: a static look at an industry with no benchmark to compare it to.
