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Published On: Mar 16, 2007 11:12 AM
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Published On: Mar 16, 2007 11:12 AM
Intellectual Property Circus
In the Hutong.
Chinese New Year. Day 3.
Late Afternoon
Chinese New Year. Day 3.
Late Afternoon
The part of me that genuinely believes
that Linux will actually amount to something like a mainstream operating system
joined Penguins the world over celebrating the judicial
ass-kicking that SCO took from U.S. Federal Judge Dale Kimball
yesterday for not coughing up any evidence to support its IPR violation claims
so far in its legal action against
IBM.
What increasingly concerns me, however, is what the Chinese may make of this. Here we are trying to make the case to the Chinese to protect our intellectual property, even taking it to the WTO, and at the same time showing them how IPR can be used by a frustrated, pissant company to stifle the growth and development of an important technology.
If I were a Chinese judicial or technology official watching this from afar, I would say "these sorts of legal piff-paffs are fine for a developed economy, but we cannot afford to have every opportunist and his brother tying down the development of our most critical sectors because they think their rights have been violated."
And even though that's obviously a single-factor view of the issue, it has its points for China.
What increasingly concerns me, however, is what the Chinese may make of this. Here we are trying to make the case to the Chinese to protect our intellectual property, even taking it to the WTO, and at the same time showing them how IPR can be used by a frustrated, pissant company to stifle the growth and development of an important technology.
If I were a Chinese judicial or technology official watching this from afar, I would say "these sorts of legal piff-paffs are fine for a developed economy, but we cannot afford to have every opportunist and his brother tying down the development of our most critical sectors because they think their rights have been violated."
And even though that's obviously a single-factor view of the issue, it has its points for China.
Posted: Fri - February 11, 2005 at 11:39 PM