In Japan especially, the patent process is used to steal.
Matsushita Electric Corporation is often called "Maneshita Denki" -- meaning, Copycat Electric.
Some year ago an American ex-pat invented a very good drying lamp for photo processing. Matsuhita stole his patented invention/design, changed a few trivial details, patented each and every trivial change, and sold the product for a lower price, bankrupting the inventor.
Side by side, the products were identical to the consumer. It was an outright corporate crime, and it happens all the time here. It's one reason Japan has so many patents filed domestically and in the USA. Some are filed in order to steal, others to discourage stealing. Whoever has the bigger legal team and more money and more to play the game wins.
This is one reason that the ongoing corporate takeover of America -- including essential government functions, and even CIA intelligence gathering -- is so worrying to those who know what's going on. The damage has been and will be enormous.
On Friday, Jul 13, 2007, at 21:36 Asia/Tokyo, Ode Coyote wrote:
"Patents" have become more about protection by intimidation than any thing else...and a basis for a brag.
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