Once Again, Be Careful What You Wish For: China Learning To Use Other Country's Patent Systems
from the this-won't-end-well dept
For years and years, US executives, politicians and diplomats have been berating China for "not respecting intellectual property." And, all along, we keep warning that those same folks are not going to like it if China actually did what they're asking it to do. That's because all of these execs, politicians and diplomats are thinking with a very static view: that US patents and technology will continue to rule, and that China needs to respect those patents. And yet, as we've noted, that's not the case. China has ramped up enforcement of IP laws lately... but in almost every case it's been used to harm foreign companies (often US companies).And now, Slashdot points us to the news that Huawei, the Chinese networking giant, has taken over the lead as filing the most international patents of any company. Just wait until American companies, whose execs complained about China "not respecting intellectual property," start getting sued in East Texas for violating Huawei's patents.
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Payback
Serve those greedy m/fs right.
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Oh yeah, Huawei suing those american retarded companies
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China is the sole producer of rare metals in the world, that alone should send a strong message of what could happen.
Not only that China actually is offering better deals to other countries for raw materials, Africa is almost all Chinese already, eastern Europe is infatuated with China since China doesn't want any forced measures to be done, soon some people will discover that they have nothing to bargain.
Not that I like the Chinese, they will impose their on rules and have the potential to be more belligerent than the U.S. but right now they are the best commercial partner one could have since they don't enforce IP laws and don't ask for anything. They are just buying geo political power and that will be a problem to American companies in the near future.
They probably will f#$% America sometime in the near future, when they don't need it anymore.
Then I want to see those idiots that say IP is important.
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New Reality TV Series?
Tune in next week as the Red Team and the Blue Team battle for ultimate supremacy in the courtroom.
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U.S. 390 thousand patents
China 203 thousand patents
Yep the plan to make others pay without doing work will be great for Asia.
And as always American companies will have their asses trashed in the global theater.
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Obvious!!!
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do you really think an east texas jury will rule with a foreign company?
all of a sudden the mindset will become, well, if a foreign company came up with it, of course it was obvious.
just saying.
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Serves them right
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Theoretical progression of fun...
2) US companies get sued in East Texas and lose on a regular basis
3) US companies push to get the US patent system abolished or at least scaled back significantly to stem the losses
4) China/Asian countries put the *US* on their version of the 301 report for not being strong enough protectors of IP
/probably die laughing if that ever did happen.
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IP idiots will suffer in America, when all the money is gone and the path to wealth is blocked by foreign IP, then I want to see idiots claim that IP is what made America great, those people obviously never read history in their lifes.
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Selective Enforcement
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Actually thats because of Ben Bernanke and the next quantitative easing. The US govt is going to print another trillion dollars.
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Do you have a source for that? I'm pretty certain we don't have enough gold to back up the money we've borrowed from other countries (and even more certain we didn't before the gold price spike), but if you have a reference I'll read it.
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Please refer to "fiat currency" to learn more.
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But you know who will make a lot of money off those lawsuits? US lawyers (and the associated courts and enforcers)! See how that works? We still make money! and US lawyers don't have to worry too much about foreign competition because the practice of law is a protected market. It's a "can't lose" situation for the US legal system! The US is becoming a nation of lawyers, lawsuits and enforcers. So what if the Chinese get all the patents? We've got the lawyers and guns they'll need to enforce them. We don't plan to be in the production business in the future anyway.
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gum
There are patents and then there are patents. The vast majority are narrow and have no or little impact. It sounds like they're doing what many large US companies do. When you lack quality you go after quantity. Unfortunately, that gums up the system for others who really do have something important.
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