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Re:Robot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Y... by LunaSea on Monday December 15, 2025 @09:12AM (#46274775)
> At first they didn't prosecute them, then they did but only for foreign companies

Funny how that works.

> Basically they had to play along to western rules that were baked into global institutions

Like making it mandatory to have a Chinese co-owner own 50% for all businesses created in China? I don't remember seeing that in the WTO rules.

> Some further reading [0] could be a book like To Steal Is An Elegant Offense from William P. Alford for a longer history of the relationship to IP within Chinese society.

Thanks for the book recommendation!

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Re:Robot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Y... by AlecSchueler on Monday December 15, 2025 @09:21AM (#46274887)
> Like making it mandatory to have a Chinese co-owner own 50% for all businesses created in China?

I'm not sure what this hat to do with IP laws, could you explain?

> Funny how that works.

It seems to make sense to me, but what are you suggesting?

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