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12 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I read an article a while back talking about how even if we move our manufacturing to Vietnam, India, or even bring it back here to the US (or Mexico, Brazil, etc.), the Chinese will still try to have a hand in it in some way. Several reasons given for why, but basically came down to money and fear of missing out.  Wonder if the filings are a part of trying to have a finger in every pie or something.

Well, China did make its own IP systems more robust about 15-20 years ago and they do go ahead and file outside of China.  Not sure Vietnam and Indonesia have useful patent systems and that's where you want to go in the first instance (country of manufacture), but big markets are a close second.

One thing that's rather curious is that current Chinese patents (and Korean patents), tend to be much more "western" than Japanese patents in terms of having more "fulsome" disclosures and illustrations.  They seem to be fairly "ready to go" in western jurisdictions like the US or Europe.

The Japanese file bazillions of patents, usually one- or  two-pagers with one or two drawings, that get published (not granted) in Japan and left to die.  It seems that on occasion, they'll pile a half dozen or so of those into a single US application and do that often enough to make Canon the biggest US patentee or one of them, for quite some time.

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Article quotes the Chinese at being upset that trade with the US is down 14% this year due to our trade policies. Imagine that is hurting their economy and jobs.

This is great leverage we have over them especially in terms of China staying out of helping Russia more. I suppose they could take an opposite stance by giving more aid to Russia but that is playing with fire.

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https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/2-chinese-nationals-charged-smuggling-potential-agroterrorism-fungus/story?id=122454213

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Two Chinese nationals have been charged with allegedly smuggling into the U.S. a fungus called "Fusarium graminearum, which scientific literature classifies as a potential agroterrorism weapon," the Justice Department said Tuesday.

Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, citizens of the People’s Republic of China, were allegedly receiving Chinese government funding for their research, some of it at the University of Michigan, officials said.

"The complaint also alleges that Jian’s electronics contain information describing her membership in and loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party," a DOJ press release said.

"It is further alleged that Jian’s boyfriend, Liu, works at a Chinese university where he conducts research on the same pathogen and that he first lied but then admitted to smuggling Fusarium graminearum into America -- through the Detroit Metropolitan Airport -- so that he could conduct research on it at the laboratory at the University of Michigan where his girlfriend, Jian, worked," according to the press release.

 

 

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My younger daughter did engineering* at Duke. She went to school with students from China. One of them turned off his phone and said to her, we're never supposed to have our phones turned off so the government can monitor what we say through the Chinese social media app. He then turned his phone back on.  

It's a nice world.

*She now makes big dosh in PE in NYC. Makes way more than me and wifey combined, but somehow we still pay her phone bill.  :(

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