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Over the last two years, I have had several ing complaints from other states about members of their bench opportunities to visit with lawyers and judges around the and bar. I am always pleased and proud to report that in Utah, country. Each trip reafrms my observation that Utah enjoys the we rarely have such problems and that by constitution, court highest caliber of legal professionals. We have some of the finest rules, state law and professional organization, we have solutions judges and lawyers found anywhere in the country. At times, wlúch prevent or minimize those problems. Often Utah is the however, our close proximity to our fellow professionals limits model for resolving the troubles of other states. our ability to appreciate their greatness. However, we can never rest upon our accomplishments. If we I just returned from Toronto, Canada, site of the 1998 Annual are to remain great, we must always examine ways to improve. American Bar Convention. 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This article summa- ZIP drive. Moreover, the products are sold intertemporally. rizes the presentations given at Sun Valley by Mark Glick, Once you purchase the ZIP drive, you can buy additional disks University of Utah; Clark Waddoups and Jonathan Hafen, Parr, later in the "after-market." Finally, and of critical importance in Waddoups, Brown, Gee & Loveless; James Kearl, Brigham the case, Iomega sells the drive cheap and makes the lion's Young University; and John Flynn, University of Utah. share of its profits from disk sales. This pricing strategy Iomega cals the "razor/razor blade" strategy. i. PROTECTING A PROPRIETARY AFR-MAT The razor/razor blade strategy creates powerfl incentives for (Mark A. Glick) afer-market entry by others. As expected, another company, Following the Supreme Court's decision in Kodak, a series of located in France, figured out how to produce (through dubi- antitrust cases claiming "exploitation" of consumers in "after- ous means) an allegedly compatible disk for the ZIP drive. In markets" were fied. A complaint fied recently at the EC fact, the disk was not a substitute, and tests conducted by inde- Commission involving Iomega raised several complicated ques- pendent laboratories showed that the disks actually damaged tions concerning the nature of after-market exploitation.