On the outside it looks like your company is sitting dormant while competitors have made strides to steal customers from right underneath you.

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Depressed demand for building materials means his company has turned otherwise dormant kilns for firing these materials into ovens for destroying old tires and drugs seized by police.

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Home Automation president Jay McLellan described how his company was targeted by a holding company that had bought up dormant patents six months from expiration, then used them to sue large and small producers.

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