No one in the banquet hall noticed that a smile flitted across the eyes of the Crown Prince of France, filled with intoxication.
What Joseph cared most about wasn't those tens of millions in patent licensing fees, but the long-term benefits over the next decades or even centuries.
Allowing cross-authorization between countries within the common market firstly enhances all governments' recognition of the patent system.
Everyone has spent real money on patents, and they have to rely on secondary authorization to other countries to recoup costs. Anyone who dares not to comply with the patent and privately counterfeits will harm the interests of all countries within the common market.
By that time, even without France's intervention, other countries will jointly discipline the rule-breakers.
As for someone secretly selling patents to outsiders like the British or Americans?
