Away around SP!!!

[Cthulhu]

Let me clear something up:

I was in manufacturing for a short while, and if there's one thing I learned, take a design from Canada/USA, have it manufactured in China to those specs and bring it back you get 2 things:

A) A re-sellable product that does not infringe on patents due to the fact it is made in China. It affects the manufacturer, not the reseller!

B) Often a lower quality product as the tollerances for manufacturing that they currently sustain is much higher than many consumers here tollerate. Alabeit cheeper $$ wise.

So yes, it can be done (and probably is!). Are we going to like what comes out of China? Let me ask you this... have they made ANYTHING we like besides Chineese food?

Casper

[Lohman446]

Wrong... as a distributor of a product you are legally responsible to make certain that it does not violate patents - hence WDP suing fields that sold markers in what they consider violation of their patents. If patents were as easy to get around as some of you seem to think, noone would bother having them.

[Cthulhu]

Unless Canadian and USA pattent laws are drastically different which to my knowledge they are not, I'd like to see the proof that that would be in contravention of a patent.

In the position I held previous to my current one, I was involved in having products shipped from China that were made to a specification that was pattented in the USA and Canada. Bobcat is an International company holding international pattents. After clearing it with the lawyer, we produced and sold thousands of replacement teeth for bobcat machinery. Trust me, I know what I'm talking about.