Control Issues

摘要

ON SEPTEMBER 1, 2013, Dale Gregg's Edmonton-based startup company, Handle-Tech Ltd., began distributing the first batch of its Handle-Tech Handle, a mechanism used to transport industrial size pipe and hose Ten days later he was in Chiana, Giving a local manufacturer license to sell a cheaper knockoff of that very same product. "Patents protect me legally but not commercially, not in reality, " he says. "If I try to convince the Chinese I have the patents from a legal perspective, and am therefore protected, chances are I'll never work a deal."