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Apple vs Samsung Lobby Spending, Or Spot The Reason For Obama's Unprecedented Veto

By Tyler Durden
Created 08/05/2013 - 08:18
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Submitted by Tyler Durden [1] on 08/05/2013 08:18 -0500



 

See if you can spot, on the chart below, why over the weekend Barack Obama (aka the Anti Patent Troll-In-Chief) intervened directly in the ongoing patent dispute between Apple and Samsung [5]on behalf of the Cupertino company (which makes its products in FoxConn facilities in China), resulting in an unprecedented veto of a decision from the US Interantional Trade Commission - an outcome not seen since 1987.

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Source: OpenSecrets [7] [7]

 

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