It looks like Apple will have to open up its checkbook on this one. In the US we have the Poweball and MegaMillions. In China it's the SueApple lottery.
It would be nice if the untold billions that companies lose to the Chinese counterfeiting industry would be addressed by the People's Court.
IP searches in China are an effing nightmare (I know as I've had to do them for work).
Is it just a language barrier or is their patent system just hard to search?
Both, if you think English legalese can be obscure try it with Chinese when the term you use in English can have multiple words in Cantonese and mandarin. Use the wrong term and you can miss so so much and it can be the one you miss is the one that bites you bad. What you hope is that when competitors file they also file a comprehensive English translation but they don't always and of course facilitation "fees" can rear there ugly head.
Its a communist country, the court is an arm of the state and will rule whichever way it is told to. It is used as a weapon of business and profit not the rule of law.
So what's the difference where in America the rich basically tell the court and politicians what to do?
Its a communist country, the court is an arm of the state and will rule whichever way it is told to. It is used as a weapon of business and profit not the rule of law.
So what's the difference where in America the rich basically tell the court and politicians what to do?
In America you have the illusion of freedom. In China you have the freedom from that illusion.
It looks like Apple will have to open up its checkbook on this one. In the US we have the Poweball and MegaMillions. In China it's the SueApple lottery.
Judge Wapner isn't doing his job if you ask me.
It's just a cost to running operations in China. They sell for billions of smartphones in Greater China, and on top of that they get cheap labor for building them. A "small" check to the appropriate officials and "blatantly-infringed" companies doesn't matter on the grand scale of things.
Also, if you look at business in Europe, Russia, America... you know, we're talking of places where "interesting" things like Monsanto, l'Oreal, or British Petroleum (oh, them. I don't even KNOW where to start. Rhodesia, maybe.) are allowed to actually operate.
Law, judges, courts. They exist, like the police, to settle things between huge companies that can afford armies of lawyers, and to keep peace in the streets, not to actually make life fair.
Does Google still exist in China? I thought they basically moved all operations to Hong Kong after the Gmail hacking incident.
I currently live in China and Google is effectively blocked here across their entire product line. Even google translate now requires use of VPN to work, a recent change. Google pulling out of China was one of the dumbest business moves in history IMHO.
I currently live in China and Google is effectively blocked here across their entire product line. Even google translate now requires use of VPN to work, a recent change. Google pulling out of China was one of the dumbest business moves in history IMHO.
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It would be nice if the untold billions that companies lose to the Chinese counterfeiting industry would be addressed by the People's Court.
Judge Wapner isn't doing his job if you ask me.
Does Google make Google Now available in China? From what I've found in a quick search they do not.
Does Google still exist in China? I thought they basically moved all operations to Hong Kong after the Gmail hacking incident.
So what's the difference where in America the rich basically tell the court and politicians what to do?
Apple, Tim, just buy Nuance for God's sake.
It looks like Apple will have to open up its checkbook on this one. In the US we have the Poweball and MegaMillions. In China it's the SueApple lottery.
Judge Wapner isn't doing his job if you ask me.
It's just a cost to running operations in China. They sell for billions of smartphones in Greater China, and on top of that they get cheap labor for building them. A "small" check to the appropriate officials and "blatantly-infringed" companies doesn't matter on the grand scale of things.
Also, if you look at business in Europe, Russia, America... you know, we're talking of places where "interesting" things like Monsanto, l'Oreal, or British Petroleum (oh, them. I don't even KNOW where to start. Rhodesia, maybe.) are allowed to actually operate.
Law, judges, courts. They exist, like the police, to settle things between huge companies that can afford armies of lawyers, and to keep peace in the streets, not to actually make life fair.
It's time to totally separate Apple from Asia.
Criminal fascists from China and Korea cannot be trusted.
I currently live in China and Google is effectively blocked here across their entire product line. Even google translate now requires use of VPN to work, a recent change. Google pulling out of China was one of the dumbest business moves in history IMHO.
Not bowing to the whims of a communist dictatorship killing off its entire population was… oh, you said business move. Carry on.
Except for the whole Android thing...