[underbyte]

I make my living off of patent royalties, made ne pretty nervous at the time. R&D patent fees etc. I had about 250,000 invested in each patent

My father had several patents om helicopter rotors in the fifties the goverment just took them and never compensated him, many legal battles over decades.

I said no politely

[XBob]

have they copied your patents without compensating you?

The japenese patent law (and they changed our laws under clinton?) says if you patent a widget, someone else can patent a red widget and a blue widget and a green widget.