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A tipping point in intellectual property protection?- Gordon Housworth [ 1/25/2005 - 21:40 ] # It would appear that the US is at a turning point in its treatment, or tolerance, of global intellectual property (IP) theft, although it is fair to say that our process is flawed:
It is revealing that the recent report that is underpinning the renewed Dept of Justice interest in IP, and is the report that AG Ashcroft reviewed with MEMA (Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association), Congressman Knollenberg, and other US manufacturers is principally devoted to legal and criminal investigative remedies. Reading the AG's announced recommendations of that report reflects the same legal and policy approach. Although these remedies will not work, and will actually backfire, as Cisco discovered in its tiff with Huawei, there are quite workable alternatives. What seems to be missing, or has been missing, is the understanding that:
The problem is certainly enormous, and growing more so. I am already on-record with the following predictions:
And if it is not too late:
Two remarkable events have put intellectual property squarely in the limelight, GM's accusations of a Chinese automaker using stolen design data, and the national security review of Lenovo's purchase of IBM's PC unit by the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS). US Commerce Secretary Donald Evans publicly accused the Chinese automaker, Chery, of "using stolen design information from GM Daewoo Auto & Technology Co." to produce Chery's QQ minicar. The target was the Chevy Spark/Daewoo Matiz which cost GM $500 million to develop. Mathdata and 'other design information' of the Chevy Spark "were simply stolen from GM Daewoo." The impact was riveting as the QQ:
Chery was then 20% owned by Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp - GM's main joint venture partner. The Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS), an interagency M&A review panel on national security grounds has given notice of review of Lenovo's purchase of IBM's PC unit over the "concern that Chinese operatives might use an IBM facility for industrial espionage." There is recent CFIUS precedent in the 2003 review of the bid by Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa for bankrupt Global Crossing, owner of one of the world's largest fiber optic networks. That review, which causes HW to withdraw, was based upon concerns "about control of a key telecom provider by a firm with close ties to the Chinese government." IBM-Lenovo deal said to get national security review US lashes out at Chinese piracy Report of the Department of Justice's Task Force on Intellectual Property Gordon Housworth InfoT Public Intellectual Property Theft Public Risk Containment and Pricing Public Strategic Risk Public |
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