Re: Outsourcing patents to India

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On 4/23/04, amol wrote:
> This is very true that technology and scientific
> research is for a decade being dominated by the western
> knowledge workers the time when poor asians didn't had a bit
> to to fire their engines James Watt fired his stream engines
> and jet its jet combustion engine. The time has changed now
> Indian at this point of time has highest no. of technical and
> engineering minds in the world , i really will not be
> surprised if time will come when India will document the
> complete technological jargons and leading researches for the
> world so you can find the scientific Guttengurg is coming up
> here, which will feed the patent offices around the world.
> But at the same moment you can imagine the downtrodden
> condition of Indian research as best of best minds in India
> will be working like inttelectual labours for the western
> scientist , this contry will be very soon having mirids of
> technical papers but unfortunately without technology to
> sell.And hence what the international regularatory affairs
> and high end tech. generator are concerned india will only
> have papers to sell. the economy of india in the future will
> be dependant on the papers and ink.
>

Yeah, I guess as soon as they learn how to communicate, we can
start to imagine the time when "India will document the
complete technological jargons and leading researches for the
world so you can find the scientific Guttengurg is coming up
here, which will feed the patent offices around the world."
Whatever that means. Maybe the people of India have some
technical know-how (are their schools better than American
engineering schools, such as MIT, Goergia Tech, Stanford, etc.? -
I doubt it), but I still think American companies want their
patent attorneys to speak/write English and communicate
effectively. Correct me if I'm wrong on this one. Outsourcing
will save companies money, but will it get them quality patents
that will stand up to litigation and prevent others from
infringing? I think the bigger companies will outsource more,
because they are concerned with maintaining and showing a big
patent portfolio rather than having strong individual patents, but
the smart small to mid-size companies will stay home. For at
least this reason, American patent attorneys should not worry too
much about the "outsourcing dilemma".

Re: Outsourcing patents to India, 5/22/04, by Kibitzer.

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