[DeTomaso] NPC: Re: japanese technology Animated water fountain

Mon Dec 8 08:19:52 EST 2008

Reminds me of a conversation I had about 5 years ago. 

I was at the home and flower show in town. There was a small booth selling
plastic clips that would hold a standard red clay pot to a poll or tree.
This was very simple but a very good idea. I asked the man if this was his
product. He said yes. I told him he will do very well with it. He told me 20
years ago he could have sold it for years and made a good living. He only
sells it at shows and does not market it on line or magazines. It took less
then a year for it to be copied in Red China and sold in masses here. He
knows this is going to happen and is working on his next product already.

This is a very good book on the subject of globalization of the market
place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_is_Flat

Larry - Cleveland

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Subject: [DeTomaso] NPC: Re: japanese technology Animated water fountain

Reminds me of a product we developed about 12 years ago, a handheld 
computer used for meter reading.  On a trip to the far east a few years 
later, one of our engineers saw an ad for a very similar looking 
handheld.  They managed to actually get their hands on one and took it 
apart.  It was exactly the same as ours, except with a few mold changes 
(corner radiuses) and electronic parts changes (different vendor 
parts).  Otherwise it was an identical copy.

What made us laugh, was that it was an identical copy of our -failed- 
earlier design.

But Boy'ds point is none the less, valid!

We'll sue the crap out of someone here who tries to leverage a design 
and make it better to produce an even better product, increasing 
competition and innovation, when overseas, they don't care, we can't 
touch them.

I'm all for better protections to keep our products from being 
replicated overseas, but you know what, the first person who takes one 
home overseas can probably sell it for a years wages to some cheap 
knock-off house.  They've taken reverse engineering to a whole new level.

Asa Jay

Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired

& Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA

1971 Mach I Mustang  [ASA JAY]
1973 Pantera L 5533  [ASASCAT]

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boyd casey wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HeUixe_Lpg
>
> It is no wonder the Japanese  are so far ahead of us in the car
> business.This link is to a video that is just a water fountain, but look
> what they have done with "just a water fountain".  But I bet the
> technology  uses the micro chips and computer hardware that was developed
by
> US companies. We basically invented the mass produced auto and the
assembly
> line that made mass production possible. But we have since relinquished
our
> manufacturing to other countries that have lower labor costs.
Unfortunately
> countries like China and Russia also do not recognize patents and
copyrights
> and licensing agreements . So what good is it having a brain trust when we
> then turn over our secretes to people who steal our intellectual property
> manufacture it at a fraction of our cost and then sell the finished
product
> all over the world ( and back to us!) at a tidy profit because they don't
> have to pay for the ideas that  we spent billions of dollars on  in R&D.
We
> need to get smart and start treating our ideas like state secrets and
> protect ourselves against commercial espionage just like we do military
> espionage.The Chinesse will execute someone if they catch them trying to
> export the screts of Chinese silk production. We won the fight against
> Communism but we are losing the war of world  economic power.In fact we
are
> giving it up with out a fight. These US based companies that are really
> mulitinational corporations have no loyalty to the USA. There only loyalty
> is to a buck or yen or euro the bottom line is the bottom line. It's time
to
> wake up and stop these multi national corporations  from selling our
economy
> and our future down the river.
>
> Boyd
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