On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 6:23 PM, mithat_konar <mithat_konar@...> wrote:
This is fascinating. Can you tell us anything about protection of the
circuit design itself (i.e., the "schematic") in China?
Protection? <laughs>
There is only one law in China: "Don't challenge the Party". If you
remember that, you can do pretty much anything else.
If you sell your project into the Chinese market, don't be surprised
that someone has copied it and brought it to market inside of 10 days.
There is no effective legal protection, and to use Bob's words,
there's no protection in the moral dimension either, as that's a total
vacuum here. Deng Xiaoping said "to get rich is glorious", and to the
majority of people here, that's all they care about.
Yes you can make money with products in the Chinese market, and the
way to do it is to sell in conjunction with a service. If you're
giving someone a service, or an experience, and you can develop a
brand around it, it's much harder to copy.
A post from my blog:
Mitch.
