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One must admire China’s pivot from 30 years of essentially ignoring IP and patent law to the detriment of Western companies, to now weaponizing IP and patent la
by transcriptase 1y ago
One must admire China’s pivot from 30 years of essentially ignoring IP and patent law to the detriment of Western companies, to now weaponizing IP and patent law against the rest of the world.
- farseer 1y agoAmerican industry also copied plenty from Britain and Germany during its industrialization in 19th century. Patents didn't really apply to foreign IP.
- kennywinker 1y agoSure, but they apply the moment you start selling back to the country that issued the patent. At least in theory.
- bdcravens 1y agoCapitalism, at least the American version of it, has a rich history of ignoring property rights, labor laws and ethics, regulations, etc. If anything, China has, and is, out-Westernizing the Western countries.
- dizlexic 1y agoI really love takes like this. Talk about China as an emerging power in the 21st century while excusing them using tactics from the 19th. 10/10
- oblio 1y agoI don't think China is necessarily being excused, but even immoral actions can draw admiration, due to the sheer complexity and brazeness, especially considering that on paper, the groups these actions are being done to are not groups of toddlers, they're equality aggressive countries themselves, historically.
- RobotToaster 1y agoThey even copied lawfare techniques from American corporations, lol. It will be "interesting" where this takes us. If the American government decides to just ignore Chinese patents then we could see the Berne convention become a paper tiger (or even more of one than it already is)
- BeFlatXIII 1y agoI hope that's the outcome. Down with intellectual property!
- ezst 1y agoProbably more that IP laws and their practical implementation need to be fixed. I have a hard time seeing how what you suggest won't inevitably benefit big, powerful, consolidated and influential players at the expense of the small, inovative ones, further slowing down the pace of innovation. Of course an even more obvious "fix" would be to outlaw "big, powerful, consolidated and influential players", oh, wait!
- lenkite 1y agoMany Chinese CEO's are graduates of Western business schools. They learnt the Holy American Dao of weaponizing IP and patent law from established US business culture.
- sschueller 1y agoIf you read into how/why Hollywood film industry was created, it isn't something new.
- Eduard 1y agoInteresting, I didn't know. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Patents_Company https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Patents_Compa...
- izacus 1y agoOr criticze the west allowing patent law to stagnate and regress innovation and their economies.