This may be because it is their only practical option: patents are costly to get and often provide only weak protection.
And if, as the paper implies, anything other than weak protection reduces innovation then we had really rather better have a system with only weak protection and thus weak property rights.
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Weak patent protection means that Chinese companies are reluctant to invest in research and development.
Firms in some countries, such as India, have been able to copy drugs much earlier than those in America and Europe because of weak patent protection.
Thatcher's very presence was an insult to the left because it undermined the left's insistence that only leftism and its protection of the weak and disadvantaged would allow women to rise.
While the dole is generous, job protection laws are quite weak.
When the Indian market opened up, he recalls, Indian companies thought they would all have to merge with each other, because years of protection had made them too weak to face the new foreign competition.
We think THQ will likely be on the hook for significant price protection as a result of the weak sell-through.
The chem-bio protection, however, was a weak area in testing.
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The crash tests found the Latin American model had a weak, unstable body structure that offered occupants little protection in even non-serious wrecks.
Location data gathered by the phones we call carry around every day is also not well protected by ECPA. While the Fourth Amendment law gives warrant protection against location information collected through a physical trespass, that limitation is weak since other tools can be used to avoid such legal hurdles.
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