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 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 International Trade Commission – an outcome not seen since 1987.
Source: OpenSecrets
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