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Originally Posted by VRPdommy
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.
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absolutely correct and I did not say it is generally an excuse. just wanted to point out that in many cases patent rights colliding with human basic rights.
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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.
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again - fully agree - building brands was part of my job for many years and i know that.
but look at the internet. here you can see exactly this kind of evolution that chinese are going through. 90% of all internet workers (no matter in what country) do not care rights from someone else - only their personal rights.
and i totally agree that the market itself will make the change because china´s big brands do have this similar problem already.
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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.
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nobody should forget where this country came from. it was and still is a communism country where people do not even pay for electricity. in their mind there is nothing that can be owned by an individual. they just start to learn that.
china today is already one of the biggest buyer markets. the prosperity of the people exploded in the last 6-7 years. they are already at the point that they can not produce cheap enough because of that. but chinese are not dumb. they are using the cheap
labor from other asian countries (like bangladesh, thailand, cambodia etc) and instead of occupying this countries they build infrastructure there and creating the biggest trade union the world have ever seen.
they own streets, harbours, airports, factories, transportation companys and logistic firms all over asia and soon all over the planet.
thanks to trump for that because nearly all countries are trusting china more as they trust the US. even autralia, canada and the EU sees in them a more reliable partner as in the USA.
countries like russia, iran and a few others that are locked out with sanctions will prefer to join this trade union that will unite 75% of the world population.
who is US than? who is the EU and who the fuck will be britain when this mission is completed?
all what is happening right now is happening in favor to russia and china because they found out how to divide the western world by using the power of the dumbs.
if you read here what some people pretend to know about economy you know exactly what i mean.