Establishing a wholly-owned company in China where a company has complete control of the decision-making process and does not have to deal with a Chinese partner can be very tempting.
It was an anticlimactic end to a case whose decision was so long delayed that some speculated the justices were deadlocked over how far to rein in what some see as an out-of-control patent process.
He likens it to the way a Hollywood film might be very different from the original script - and that Shakespeare was unusual in getting control of the production process.
The complaint claimed that "Anheuser-Busch employs some of most sophisticated process control technology in the world to precisely monitor the alcohol content at the final stages of production, and then adds additional water to produce beers with significantly lower alcohol contents than is represented on the the labels".
In the process, the group survived and thrived despite bitter battles for control and direction among the third-generation brothers, grandchildren of founder Park Seung-jik.
John Bowmer, Adecco's former chairman who came out of retirement to oversee the re-auditing, complains about the way in which, under such a process, the auditors are in complete control.