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Did the British attitude to patents change when German companies started owning more patents than British companies?
by taffer 7y ago
Did the British attitude to patents change when German companies started owning more patents than British companies?
- oblio 7y agoYes, when those patents started pointing guns at British interests :)
- dredmorbius 7y agoNot a patent example, but there's a reason "asprin" is a generic term in the US.
- justincormack 7y agoYes. For example the British arranged to cancel all German patents after ww2. This led to eg the development of the Japanese camera industry among many other things.
- taffer 7y agoI fail to see the parallels between Germany after World War II and China in 2019. China's patent situation is much closer to Germany in the late 19th century and the British didn't throw away their patent system in the 19th century just because Germany patented more.