{"id":28170,"date":"2016-07-21T14:17:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T21:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/just-as-we-warned-a-chinese-tech-giant-goes-on-the-patent-attack-in-east-texas"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:12:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:12:35","slug":"just-as-we-warned-a-chinese-tech-giant-goes-on-the-patent-attack-in-east-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/just-as-we-warned-a-chinese-tech-giant-goes-on-the-patent-attack-in-east-texas","title":{"rendered":"Just As We Warned: A Chinese Tech Giant Goes On The Patent Attack \u2014 In East Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/just-as-we-warned-a-chinese-tech-giant-goes-on-the-patent-attack-in-east-texas.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/274422051&color=2665ad&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A \u201cTold You So Article\u201d on IP and China.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Techdirt has been warning for years that the West\u2019s repeated demands for China to \u201crespect\u201d patents could backfire badly. In 2010, Mike pointed out that Chinese companies were starting to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20101015\/02035211440\/patents-create-incentives-for-more-patents-not-innovation.shtml\">amass<\/a> huge patent portfolios, which were soon used as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20110102\/15230512491\/chinas-patent-strategy-isnt-about-innovation-its-economic-weapon-against-foreign-companies.shtml\">weapons<\/a> against foreign firms operating in China, most notably <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20151124\/06550032896\/chinese-company-learns-west-builds-up-big-patent-portfolio-uses-it-to-sue-apple-china.shtml\">Apple<\/a>. In another 2010 post, Mike wrote the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20101007\/01111911319\/once-again-be-careful-what-you-wish-for-china-learning-to-use-other-country-s-patent-systems.shtml\">following<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Huawei, the Chinese networking giant, has taken over the lead as filing the most international patents of any company. Just wait until American companies, whose execs complained about China \u201cnot respecting intellectual property,\u201d start getting sued in East Texas for violating Huawei\u2019s patents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20160718\/06573135006\/just-as-we-warned-chinese-tech-giant-goes-patent-attack-east-texas.shtml\">https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20160718\/06573135006\/just-...exas.shtml<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u201cTold You So Article\u201d on IP and China. Techdirt has been warning for years that the West\u2019s repeated demands for China to \u201crespect\u201d patents could backfire badly. In 2010, Mike pointed out that Chinese companies were starting to amass huge patent portfolios, which were soon used as weapons against foreign firms operating in China, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56469,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28170\/revisions\/56469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}