Indeed, a aviation company ( Miles Aircraft ) in my home town took a license from Bic in the late 1940s to start manufacture of their roller-ball Biro pen. I h

Indeed, a aviation company ( Miles Aircraft ) in my home town took a license from Bic in the late 1940s to start manufacture of their roller-ball Biro pen. I have a hard time believing that China couldn't replicate that technology for 70 years.