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Originally Posted by mossbacked
Over the years I've trademarked several items, but patent law is a field where I have little experience. Are you thinking if we produce overseas without a patent, they will tend to produce and sell against us because we didn't protect it?
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A patent at least gives you some basis in the law, although the process is time consuming, hence the "patent pending" notation.
I doubt it would stop the Chinese, note the reference that nine ou of ten users of Microsoft programs are illegal copies, even within their government.
As for protection, I prduced a 900 page workbook on a forthcoming telephone networking standard and it had "Copyright my name" on every page. While attending a conference on this subject I had a professor from IIT tell me how much he admired my work and that he was using it in his classes. IIT never paid me a dime.
