Norinco paying royalties
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Royalties are not paid simply due to a patent. If the factory that's manufacturing an item is using equipment that another company owns, or has put into the contract that they are to receive compensation for each unit built on that machinery, a royalty is paid. It simply becomes a licensed product, weather advertised as such or not.
Ivor
No, just human rights laws, labor laws, copyright and trade laws as well. They sell ####ty copies of EVERYTHING....current or expired. Clones of Aimpoint, Eotech, Leopold....just to name a few, right down to the markings can be found online, shipped to your door from China.
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ar-15 is armalite... nvm sold to colt
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Here's an interesting tidbit from Wikipedia, although it has no source whatsoever.
So looks as if it was either a bribe or blackmail, depending on how you look at it. Colt didn't want Norinco to produce the AR-15-type rifle and undercut them so they gave them old 1911 machinery to produce the 1911 on.
Here's where it gets interesting: in the US, pump-action Norinco 18" 870-clone shotguns are being imported under the name Interstate Hawk and apparently owned by the same parent company that owns Remington itself. Why would a company license a product that's ripping off its more expensive product?
Many of the guns Norinco makes are not under patent protection it seems, including the M14, 1911, apparently 870, etc. But coming from a country with little regard for patents or intellectual property, I don't think it'd make a lick of difference if they were infringing on patents left and right.
It seems that Norinco has improved on their quality and certain guns including their 870 clones have high praise. Still, there's something unsettling about supporting companies who have no problem stealing the designs of others.
So looks as if it was either a bribe or blackmail, depending on how you look at it. Colt didn't want Norinco to produce the AR-15-type rifle and undercut them so they gave them old 1911 machinery to produce the 1911 on.
Here's where it gets interesting: in the US, pump-action Norinco 18" 870-clone shotguns are being imported under the name Interstate Hawk and apparently owned by the same parent company that owns Remington itself. Why would a company license a product that's ripping off its more expensive product?
Many of the guns Norinco makes are not under patent protection it seems, including the M14, 1911, apparently 870, etc. But coming from a country with little regard for patents or intellectual property, I don't think it'd make a lick of difference if they were infringing on patents left and right.
It seems that Norinco has improved on their quality and certain guns including their 870 clones have high praise. Still, there's something unsettling about supporting companies who have no problem stealing the designs of others.
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