This is the story of one of those "you didn't build that" people, who through their ingenuity and hard work built a business that thrives. I wanted to post this because, as he tells his story, you see how important his intellectual property was to his success of ordinary tool machining. The author, Don Kessinger from Colorado, wrote this to my husband in response to the recent Reason magazine article on how patents are ruining our economy. WWJGD posted that article in the Gulch last week.