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What else do you want?

For you not to pee on my leg and tell me it's raining. I may have been born at night but it wasn't last night.

So when it all boils down to the nub, your suggestion is that US patent law should only apply to companies which manufacture goods in the US? That's so stupid it doesn't even deserve the sobriquet of "radical".

We've got a heck of a lot more to lose if foreign nationals don't honor our patents, and turnabout is fair play;

There is some meat for you both from something I posted on another thread. Chew on it and enjoy your day!

I also think that we need tort reform so that companies that make things in this country won't have to worry about the next lawsuit.

I have just proposed the following measure that is both litigation reducing and market enhancing. Namely, removing US patent protection for expatriate business. The more I think about it the more I like it. Patent's are a command economy tool (they were first used by kings and robber aristocracy). They grant artificial monopoly - the many times over entirely obvious things. They give a license to sue - the small/medium businesses cannot afford the price of litigation even if hey are right. Judges are not versed in technology and totally unqualified to judge on the matters, so the awards usually go to the side with the best (most expensive, offshore profits paid) lawyers. On top of that a patented product produced offshore does not pay the price for protection in the US. It should not be protected. Removing patents that are obviously wrong will only aid the market forces. And boy, is it wrong to litigate domestic producers into the ground while producing offshore? Patents are a huge mess on their own that needs to be cleaned up. They have a legitimate purpose but a very dangerous way of achieving it (actually they don't achieve their stated purpose.) But that's another story altogether.

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We've got a heck of a lot more to lose if foreign nationals don't honor our patents,

Easily the most un-informed comment on this thread.

The PRC is ALREADY in flagrant violation of IP--ask Chevrolet, Jeep, and Briggs & Stratton.

They never HAD an interest in IP law, (property rights) and there's no "turnabout" here: it's war.

But I suppose that reading the newspapers may be far too 'practical' for a theorist, eh?