Licensing Best Practices
Strategic, Territorial, and Technology Issues
Chapter One
LICENSING AND TECHNOLOGY
TRANSFER TO CHINA: A ROADMAP
By Henry Beck AND Xichun (Catherine) Pan
INTRODUCTION
"FREE RIDING" PAST AND PRESENT. A rapidly developing economy is hungry
for the fruits of the intellectual labor of its more developed trading partners.
It eagerly awaits their new products, and because the costs of respecting intellectual
property rights are too high, the aggrieved creators are too far away, or cultural
values do not make the protection of foreigners' rights a high priority, the
rapidly developing economy chooses to "free ride" on the investments of others
in intellectual property.
If this is a familiar tale, the reader may be surprised to learn that we have been
talking not about China or other contemporary emerging nations like India, but
of the United States in the 19th century. In the words of America's greatest
copyright scholar, the late Melville Nimmer, "Like certain [Asian] locales about ... read full excerpt from Licensing Best Practices: Strategic, Territorial, and Technology Issues ebook
