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Originally Posted by thommy
I really like to read your posts as you are one of the few with logic and intelligent thoughts.
and yes china did some really bad things and this should not fall under the table. but you can not ruin the world economy for it.
and another story is about what they have "stolen".
only because the west makes his own patent laws it does not mean that all other countries have to accept them. patent laws are worldwide different.
One little story I can tell you is, that I was growing up in Germany and you know germans are potato lovers.
There is one sort of potato what I can get only in Germany.
In Spain (where I live a few month per year) nobody sells them because this sort of potato is under a patent and farmers would have to pay so much for it that it does not make sense.
Now the only place I get them originally except in parts of Germany) is in Thailand because they give a fuck on a patent on food - and I agree with that. NOBODY should have the right to get an exclusive patent a potato.
Same thing is with all this clothes copies.
Actually the most of them are not even copies. They are produced with the same material in the same factory from the same people.
But they are so fucking cheap to produce that i think that the crime is to sell it because of a "brand" 100 times more expensive as necessary.
For sure there are other and more serious cases - but in the mentioned ones they are more like robin hoods as criminals for me.
and last not least an economy can not grow with just a few people.
even when chines indians or pakistanis have just a fraction of the buying power from a european - they are fucking 10 times more than us and they want to buy. but for this they need to make money - and they do it with the cheap labor. this cheap labor does not only make their lives better - it makes our lives better too because we can buy more things with the same amount of money. this is called prosperity.
what trump does at the moment will hit the world economy a lot. but on longterm it will hit the us economy MUCH harder because the debts are already on such a high level that
they canīt be paid back EVER.
china will survive that because their dept to GDP is not 105% like the US it is 45% and only 9% of this 45 is foreign money.
I donīt know why the US is always underestimating the asians.
they lost china to mao, they lost korea, they lost vietnam - was that not enough school to understand that this people will NEVER accept a foreign dictate?
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There is a lot to know about the differences in patent and trademark law around the world. But we do have a standard in international trade by a organization known as WIPO.
As far as the cost of the name brand items and the cost of them. It is fair for company's to build a 'BRAND' in name, and some spend a lot of money doing that. It brings value to the product and copies are not sharing the expense of that.
Everyone knows who Harley Davidson is, and they will vigorously defend their trademark, because if they do not, they will loose the value of their mark.
The power of BRAND is so great, it is a asset that you can actually borrow money against, so you should protect it at any cost.
The knock-offs are not paying the price for that or the advertising that made it famous. Nor the experimentation and trial and error losses before a well liked product was found/produced.
Just pointing out the view from the other side. Food for thought.
China will be changing their tune on intellectual property soon enough when they start creating their own. It has already been a problem for some of their home grown company's who now what to register it in other countries to prevent it from being copied.
China does things a bit different on the inside. Anyone can produce anything. If you can make the same as the guy next door and sell it, you can. This has been a long time effort to spur entrepreneurship.
But the government knows it can't continue just making copies as they will be developing their own IP and want it protected. As I said, those biz are going outside the country from the start where they can get protection. They have a problem now.