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...Inventing Failure After years of negotiations, plans for an E.U.-wide patent were shelved after member states failed to agree on making translations of the patent applications into all of the region's languages legally binding...
...China," says Hhu Ng, a portfolio manager at the Cundill Group in Vancouver, "you fear for your life sitting in a cab because there's no regard for traffic laws. How much confidence should you have then in China's business laws?" Not much. Corruption is rampant, copyright and patent piracy is a way of life, regulation of the financial markets is murky, and Chinese accounting standards could turn the con men of Enron and WorldCom green with envy. What's more, the Chinese banking system is dominated by the government, with loans tending to go to political cronies, state...
...that used a lever to lift a phone receiver, a 78-r.p.m. record player to convey a personalized greeting, and a wire recorder to capture callers' 30-sec. messages. More than 6,000 of these "electronic secretaries" were in use by 1957, when he and a partner sold the patent to General Telephone Corp...
...much the bike’s loss that I lamented—it can easily be replaced with another, less outrageously colored, model. What really bothered me was that someone had jolted me out of my comfortable world with what can only be described as an act of patent, petty meanness. I sure hope that there were bona fide economic motives behind the theft (and I really hope the bandit is using the cash from my bike to pay his landlord, not his dealer). But from my point of view, it felt like a bully had just pushed me into...
...policy proposal, Mylavarapu outlined a plan to encourage U.S. pharmaceutical companies to loosen their patent restrictions in areas of the world undergoing health crises...