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READING:READ THE TEXT. FOR EACH STATEMENT 1 TO 8 BELOW CHOOSE A)RIGHT, b)WRONG OR C)DOESN'T SAY.
Juana Lopez has invented a number of things over the years, but they were mostly relatively small improvements to existing products. Then one day she had an idea for a dishwashing machine that worked without using water. She went to see several dishwasher manufacturers about producing the machine, but none of them were interested.
Juana found investors to back her idea and founded her own production company. She spent millions of euros on developing her dishwasher, and it was launched three years later. From the day of the launch, sales were very good – better even than Juana had hoped.
But Global Domestic (GD), one of the companies that she had been to see, launched its own waterless dishwasher. Juana obtained one and patented: she had obtained legal protection for these ideas so that other companies could not use them. After a long legal process, GD was forced to stop making its competing dishwasher and to pay Juana several million euros.
Now Juana's waterless dishwasher has 40 percent of the worldwide dishwasher market, and this is increasing every year. There is no other dishwasher like it. Word- of-mouth recommendation by satisfied users has made it a big success.

1. Juana Lopez is Spanish.
2. Her dishwashing machine was her first invention.
3. She went to see several manufacturers about producing the dishwasher.
4. She founded her own production company, entirely with her own money.
5. GD produced a dishwasher that copied a lot of Juana's ideas.
6. Juana's case against GD was settled in a court in the United Sates.
7. GD was forced to pay Juana for copying her ideas without her permission.
8. Juana's market share of the world dishwasher market was increasing, but now it is getting smaller.

WRITING:You work at Classic Appliances (CA). Before Juana Lopez founded her own production company, she came to see you. She discussed with you the possibility of CA manufacturing the waterless dishwasher she had invented. Write a letter(not more than 100 words) to her following your meeting, containing these points:
1. thank Juana for coming to see you
2.you have discussed the design with collehues in the resarch and development department - technical problems with the design - impossible to solve
3.people in the marketing department see no demand from consumers for a waterless dishwasher
4.CA not interested in manufacturing the product
5.thank Juana again for contacting you about the invention - interesting discussion
6.wishh her luck with future projrcts
7.end suitably

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