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On 05/20/2013 08:51 PM, Stephen Ecob wrote:
>>   Should I have any concerns about "IP harvesting" with these Chinese
>> outfits?  (probably not with the Aussie gent, I'd assume..)
> 
> It's always a possibility.
> I've had the rather surreal experience of walking through a plant room
> in China and seeing a PCA that I'd designed, but suddenly realising
> that it wasn't my design but something derived from it.  When I asked
> about it, one of the engineers of our "partner" company was very happy
> to explain how he'd modified it to give better linearity and how it
> was so much cheaper for them to make it for themselves instead of
> buying it from Australia !
> The management of the company I was working for didn't seem to care,
> they said that my PCA was just a small component in a very big deal
> and we shouldn't jeopardise that by making a fuss.  This same company
> went bust within two years, go figure.

  That's, umm, terrifying.

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA