Posted on 03/10/2022 1:38:22 PM PST by Trump20162020
Russia has effectively legalized patent theft from anyone affiliated with countries “unfriendly” to it, declaring that unauthorized use will not be compensated.
McDonald’s said Tuesday that it would temporarily close its 850 restaurants in Russia, a significant decision for a company that gets 9 percent of its revenue from Russia and Ukraine. Without trademark protections, Russia could “take those McDonald’s that got shut down and … just let local operators operate the restaurants and call them McDonald’s,” Gerben said.
Russia’s removal of intellectual property protections during wartime is not without precedent. Smithsonian Magazine describes how the German company Bayer lost its American patent on aspirin as the U.S. government seized property from firms associated with its enemies.
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China won’t like the competition.
We should let them steal the patents for the Edsel.
The patent for McDonald’s grease meals?
Suck it up.
Peripetchikoff : No formula, NO DEAL!
C.R. MacNamara : OK, NO DEAL!
Borodenko : We do not need you! If we want Coca-cola, we invent it ourselves!
C.R. MacNamara : Oh, yeah? In 1956 you flew a bottle of Coke to a secret laboratory in Sverdlosk. A dozen of your top chemists went nuts trying to analyze the ingredients. Right?
Mishkin : No comment!
C.R. MacNamara : And in 1958, you planted two undercover agents in Atlanta to steal the formula. And what happened? They both defected! And now they’re successful businessmen in Florida packaging instant borscht. Right?
Peripetchikoff : No comment!
C.R. MacNamara : Last year you put out a cockamamie imitation “Kremlin-kola!” You tried it out in the satellite countries, but even the Albanians wouldn’t drink it. They used it for SHEEP DIP! RIGHT?
Mishkin : No comment!
C.R. MacNamara : So either get down to business or get off the pot!
Peripetchikoff : My dear American friend, if we are to live together in peaceful coexistence, there must be a certain amount of give and take.
C.R. MacNamara : Oh, sure - we give and you take.
Peripetchikoff : What is the matter - you do not trust us?
C.R. MacNamara : No comment!
That’ll make lots of friends!
Say goodbye to Toyota, Boeing, Airbuss, Citroen, and Renault/Nissan. Then say goodbye to any computer not made by Lenovo.
Trying the Fake Russian McDonalds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cV3NzQKREY
Being woke has its consequences. I guess McDonald’s feels like it can except a 9% loss.
Who do think told them about this policy? Their new best friend.
Toyota, Boeing, Airbus, and Renault/Nissan already cancelled Russia.
Are they gonna have The Sadz now that Russia is cancelling them back?
Here's a hankie, cancelkidz.
Get woke, go broke.
Russia is no longer looking at sanctions that last until this war ends. They’re looking at DECADES before these sanctions are lifted.
May as well start calling Russia the USSR again because Putin just took them right back to 1983.
Good luck to all the Russians out there
You don't know how lucky you are, boys.
Russia and (especially) China have been doing that for decades.
The 9% is sales, profits are much more there...
Maybe Putin will engage in a futile war with the US, suffer huge losses with lots of lives, and then come back for billions of dollars in handouts from the USA.
After all, that’s what we do for former enemies defeated in war.
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