To: doug9732
There's a lot this story doesn't mention. Here's a quote from the US Trade Representative's (USTR) office.
"-- Failing to protect intellectual property rights (IPR). Enforcement of IPR laws was "seriously inadequate," the report said, noting a US estimate that the value of counterfeit goods in China amounted to 19 billion to 24 billion dollars. Estimated US losses exceeded 1.8 billion dollars a year."
This is costing me between 10K and 40K daily in lost royalties alone. It is keeping me from increasing my staff.
WE SHOULD NOT CONDUCT BUSINESS IN ANY COUNTRY THAT DOES NOT RECOGNIZE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS.
I've no intention of introducing any more products until our government has signed a treaty with China that protects our Constitutional rights.
Article. I. Section. 8. Clause 8:
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries"
To: backtothestreets; All
WE SHOULD NOT CONDUCT BUSINESS IN ANY COUNTRY THAT DOES NOT RECOGNIZE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTSIndia forbids itself from recognizing Patents on Pharmaceuticals.
29 posted on
04/06/2004 2:46:07 PM PDT by
Lael
(Patent Law...not a single Supreme Court Justice is qualified to take the PTO Bar Exam!)
To: backtothestreets
I feel for you. I am taking it on the chin as well. Globalism made me rich during the 1990s, but today it has turned into a monster, I doubt my current line of business can continue without radical changes to the environment, or, some major externally imposed new conditions.
135 posted on
04/07/2004 10:19:20 AM PDT by
GOP_1900AD
(Un-PC even to "Conservatives!" - Right makes right)
To: backtothestreets
It is indeed ironic that the large corporations that have become such large pillagers of intellectual property rights are now constrained to complain that that which they have pillaged is being pillaged by others. What, the "submarine patent" falsehood will not deter the heathen Chinee? Egad!
196 posted on
04/07/2004 10:34:17 PM PDT by
AmericanVictory
(Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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