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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (147142)	3/18/2019 7:57:39 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	1 Recommendation Recommended By elmatador Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219848

One of my favorite stories is Charles Dickens first trip to America and he became horribly upset and depressed when his adoring fans told him he was the best-selling author in America. What Dickens knew and his fans didn't was America still had not signed a copyright and patent treaty with England, so Dickens didn't see even one cent of the sale of his books in America. Not only books, but America stole all of the latest steam engine and mill designs from England while making them better with significant improvements. That's the way it can be with a scrappy young economy. Eventually the newer economy wants equal access to markets for their goods, so they realize it's time to put on their "big boy pants" and follow international law and the laws they agree to with their trading partners. China has already signed these agreements with the US and Europe but simply refuses to abide by them fully. That's the way it was when America which began prosecuting Americans who violated foreign copyrights and patents. To some, the US government had become a running dog lackey of foreign intersts - but it was a change which had to be made for the better welfare of all Americans. This is why it became US policy to find ways to prosecute the violation of US and international law by Chinese or other companies based in nations which don't enforce laws. Initially it's the carrot, sign these agreements and see how gloriously rich you will become as trade increases, but if they follow the agreements just good-enough-style, then their trading partners replace the carrot with the stick. . But Trump naturally possesses the attitude of a pimp or a drug dealer. He's willing to turn a blind eye to crimes anyone might commit, just so long as they promise to buy more of his products. "I don't care if you have to rob that grocery store to get the cash to buy my drugs or use my hookers . . . . . . just so long as you have cash to buy more of my drugs and hookers. I'm not a cop after all, just a simple merchant." Long experience has shown that this attitude cannot create a stable long-term relationship, but criminals notoriously care far more about now than they care about later consequences. That irrationally blind impulsiveness is what makes them criminals. It's the very attitude of the Japanese Empire before WW-II. Very short-tem thinking and it has predictable results, which aren't initially apparent. That's a not mentality which is fairly representative of American culture, but probably does represent the views of Trump supporters, which also tell you who they are.

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (147142)	3/18/2019 8:15:11 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219848

unclear on the quality of the patent filings, but to paraphrase the pentagon, quantity has a quality all its own but for mathematics-challenged folks, difficult to understand reuters.com Huawei leads Asian domination of U.N. patent applications in 2018GENEVA (Reuters) - Chinese telecoms giant Huawei led the pack with Asia accounting for more than half of the international patent applications at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) last year, WIPO said on Tuesday. A Huawei company logo is seen outside a shopping mall in Shanghai, China March 7, 2019. REUTERS/Aly Song Huawei, which has been under pressure since the United States demanded its allies bar Chinese vendors from participating in building 5G networks due to national security concerns, made 5,405 patent applications to the U.N. body, up from 4,024 in 2017. “It’s an all-time record by anyone,” WIPO director general Francis Gurry told a news conference. WIPO oversees international treaties governing patents, trademarks and industrial designs. Its annual report on the applications it receives - a subset of all intellectual property filings globally - gives an early snapshot of the trends. Asia-based filings accounted for 50.5 percent of the total applications received, Gurry said. “Historically, this is really quite extraordinary,” he said. “Historically, this is a momentous occasion, this is something that is really a very, very significant result.” The second-biggest user of the WIPO international patent system in 2018 was Mitsubishi Electric with 2,812 filings, followed by Intel with 2,499. Although inventors in the United States filed more applications than in any other country, China looks set to take the top place this year or next, after a meteoric rise over the past quarter century. Having filed only one patent application in the WIPO system in 1993, its applications overtook Japan’s in 2017 and grew by a further 9.1 percent to 53,345 in 2018, while the number of U.S.-based filings slipped 0.9 percent to 56,142. Asia accounted for six of the top eight companies, with China’s ZTE Corp and BOE Technology Group and South Korea’s Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics also among the leaders. China also jumped up the academic rankings, with four of its universities making the top ten list for the first time. While the University of California remained well ahead among educational institutions, with 501 patent applications in 2018, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology was second, Shenzhen University and South China University of Technology leapt into third and fourth spot, just ahead of Harvard. Gurry said Chinese universities benefited from an extremely strong emphasis on innovation and the commercialization of basic research, as well as access to the world’s second largest national pool of research and development spending. Eye-tracking device aids ALS DJ's performance He said China had introduced an equivalent of the U.S. Bayh-Dole Act, ensuring that patents taken out on government-sponsored research were being used, which may have had an influence on Chinese universities’ attitude towards commercializing their research. The WIPO report represents applications for patents, trademarks and designs that their owners feel are valuable enough to protect and promote in overseas markets. Another WIPO report, released in December includes millions of applications for IP protection that are never filed overseas. Reporting by Tom Miles; Editing by Kirsten Donovan