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Old 07-26-2003, 02:28 AM  
Webby
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From what I read, the reason why offshore jursdictions are good for patent lawsuit protection and the like is that it is quite expensive to file a suit there.

Furthermore although I can understand the need for any offshore jurisdiction to recognize international copyright law, is it required to recognize U.S. patent law?
I can see that they will certainly not give priority to court time on this. But they "usually" recognize international copyright laws. I am not sure if there is some tie with U.S Patent law within this.

No.. this has no hope in hell of being easy - the cost is silly, - it is a criminal offence to divulge the benefical owner of an offshore unless by court order on the basis of money laundering or drug dealing. Any offshore's where we are incorporated would not issue an order on the basis of some copyright/patent infringement allegation.

There was an instance of a $15million fraud case committed in another country. This country sent a team of law enforcement officers and lawyers to hopefully extradict the alledged perpitrator. They failed and went home.
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