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January 11, 2011

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David Leonhart at the New York Times can't tell a copycat from a thieving rat, calling software piracy "intellectual property theft." "For the United States, the No. 1 problem with China's economy is probably intellectual property theft. Technology companies, for example, continue to notice Chinese government agencies downloading software updates for programs they have never bought, at least not legally." The U.S. fourth estate has become an outhouse. Not to mention so-called "technology companies" that are nothing more than whiny witnesses to shoplifting. Are the companies afraid that alienating the powers-that-be in the middle kingdom would bring a badass backlash? There's the story that Mr. Leonhart missed.

Posted by Patent Hawk at January 11, 2011 11:29 PM | Patents In Business