Friday, May 17, 2013

Will China Skip IPR? All Hail Fucheng County!

"Intellectual" "Property" "Rights" has been an unmitigated disaster in the West.  The Chinese are toying with the idea of shooting themselves in the foot with this disastrous regime, but sometimes we see glimmers of hope.  For example, PLU stickers come to Fucheng County!

China has a terrible PR (public relations) problem for its goods within China.  The problem is solved by simply adding traceability labels.  Once one adds a traceability label, then a trade mark is pointless.

Trade marks are one of the sillier "intellectual" "property" "rights" but yet one that people who thoroughly reject copyrights and patents sometimes argue in favor.  Inscrutable.

Meanwhile, back in the states, Inc Reports:


Just two months after several provisions of the America Invents Act (AIA) went into effect, the House Committee on Small Business met to evaluate how it's been doing. 
As fewer small businesses seek patents for services, it's beginning to look like the act might have offered too little, too late. 


Maybe they are wising up.

Patents also give small businesses a "powerful foothold" when they "may not yet be able to fully realize the market potential of their product or service," said Dennis Crouch, a law professor at the University of Missouri. 

Prove it.  You'd think by now someone, somewhere would provide evidence patents do what they say they do.  Marketing gives a foothold, not violence backed regime.

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