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Don't worry. Once China and India have a sufficient manufacturing, services and consumer base, I fully expect them to formally declare IP to be a nonsense and a
by FourSquareToo 15y ago
Don't worry. Once China and India have a sufficient manufacturing, services and consumer base, I fully expect them to formally declare IP to be a nonsense and an impediment to growth.
- meow 15y agoSoftware patents are already not valid in India. So no patent on implementing one-click buying. On the other hand, no protection for mpeg family of protocols either.
- jhancock 15y agoNot sure about China. They do avoid IP rules but for purposes of bringing things under Chinese companies. Once these companies have enough value to protect in their IP (regardless of how they came to have it), they tend to look to their government for protection.
- kayman 15y agoExactly. GOod luck enforcing IP rules in China. Your only choice is to out-innovate, not out-sue
- alain94040 15y agoActually your more likely choice is to copy (http://blog.foundrs.com/2012/01/02/apple-vs-samsung-the-trolls-win/ http://blog.foundrs.com/2012/01/02/apple-vs-samsung-the-trol...). We won't be necessarily better off in a world with no IP protection.
- FourSquareToo 15y agoIt's fascinating to imagine what the tech world might look like with no (or radically different) IP laws. I doubt it would be anywhere near as simple as the blog author makes out.
- regularfry 15y agoThat was precisely the US's stance a while back. Funny how things change.