Wait, some guys thought there was going to be repeat business selling an undersea cable cutting device and they went to the trouble of patenting it?
How many people are in the business of maliciously cutting these cables indiscriminately, it feels like this device is more of a build it and sell on the shady/black market kind of deal.
China produces 4 times the patents the US does. We should have burned the patent industry to the ground not force other countries to use them. We created a monster.
Seems like general military-industrial-complex stuff. In the initial phase of an open war, say against an island nation that totally has always been your territory, you could quite openly want to cut cables, and the patents kinda protect against another company being the one that profits from a new method of doing so. (I have no idea if the Chinese government actually respects patents by companies within it.)
Wait, some guys thought there was going to be repeat business selling an undersea cable cutting device and they went to the trouble of patenting it?
How many people are in the business of maliciously cutting these cables indiscriminately, it feels like this device is more of a build it and sell on the shady/black market kind of deal.
Wait… China has patent office?
China produces 4 times the patents the US does. We should have burned the patent industry to the ground not force other countries to use them. We created a monster.
Seems like general military-industrial-complex stuff. In the initial phase of an open war, say against an island nation that totally has always been your territory, you could quite openly want to cut cables, and the patents kinda protect against another company being the one that profits from a new method of doing so. (I have no idea if the Chinese government actually respects patents by companies within it.)