Jul 21, 2016
Just As We Warned: A Chinese Tech Giant Goes On The Patent Attack — In East Texas
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: futurism
A “Told You So Article” on IP and China.
Techdirt has been warning for years that the West’s repeated demands for China to “respect” patents could backfire badly. In 2010, Mike pointed out that Chinese companies were starting to amass huge patent portfolios, which were soon used as weapons against foreign firms operating in China, most notably Apple. In another 2010 post, Mike wrote the following: