Bad news if you're a non-American (is the term 'alien' still used?): the Strategic Manufacturing & Job Repatriation Act seeks, among other things, to develop a national manufacturing strategy to create American jobs: "The legislation would comprehensively align existing federal funding – at no new cost – to support job repatriation and manufacturing growth, study a new tax incentive to encourage repatriation, and bolster intellectual property protection".Protecting American intellectual property is achieved by "restricting unnecessary foreign access to pending patent applications". Or am I reading too much into this?
I was wondering when protectionism was going to raise its ugly head.
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Welcome back to the middle-ages where new discoveries where treated as trade secrets and kept tight, until the PATENT system was made to allow access to others, figures.
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