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>  Should I have any concerns about "IP harvesting" with these Chinese
> outfits?

"Fight Chinese Counterfeiting? Forget It" says Microchip CEO.

http://www.ebnonline.com/author.asp?section_id=2981&doc_id=262849 :

"Industry associations and the US government 'can lobby all they like,
but China doesn't care,' Steve Sanghi, Microchip Technology's
CEO...Chinese think differently about property rights... In China,
when you sign a contract, it means nothing..."

Boss went to CES in 2010 and found a life sized poster of one of my
colleagues, Jason, on the wall at one of the booths.
Not only had the chinese company copied our product, badly, they
copied our literature too, and made some life sized.

Our stuff is designed to be used by firefighters, *in the fire*,
you've seen them in Duracell Battery commercials on TV, and coverage
of other more tragic recent events.

The knockoff product was held together with Hot Glue, it would have
failed in seconds, potentially leading to grave injuries of anyone
that used it.

When Boss confronted these people at CES, they did not care.  To this
day, he still gets emails from them trying to sell us their dangerous
knockoff of our product.