To: elmatador who wrote (72726 ) 4/4/2011 1:03:44 PM From: Maurice Winn 1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) | Respond to ElM, it's okay to depend on patented technology: <The Chinese do not want to be vulnerable to technical embargoes by depending on foreign patents. > If push comes to shove, China can just ignore all foreign patents and do what they like. It's only actual exports that the USA can limit, not what people in China do themselves. They can copy any idea they like if they are willing to breach World Trade Organisation rules and have their exports stopped and assets confiscated. CoCom ceased to function on March 31, 1994, and the then-current control list of embargoed goods was retained by the member nations until the successor, the Wassenaar Arrangement, was established. > It wasn't a matter of patent control. Anyone can ignore patents, and they often do. That's why there is so much litigation in patent law. It's only when disputed objects show up at a border that control can be exerted.
