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Originally Posted by 05stram
Looks like Mercedes yet stole more intellectual property from the breakup with Chrysler. Such a shame a foreign company raided a corporation in this country and the federal government allowed it to happen.
http://dodgeram.org/ki4cy/ram_picts/Trex.htm |
Wasn't stolen, bought and paid for.
One of the very first things worked out in purchasing a company as Mercedes did (not a JV as some may recall) is how to handle IP.
It is why SAAB couldn't get a deal. GM would not part with the IP. It's why the Opel deal fell through with Magna. GM was ok with Magna, but they had partnered up with the Russians and GM would give them the rights to the IP.
So if a bad deal was made, the US government is supposed to intervene? Or should the government have stepped when Merecedes bought Chrysler and passed some kind of "you can buy the company but you can't have the IP" law? Wow that would change the global landscape of buying and selling companies.
Oh and by the way, a dual rear axle doesn't really count as IP. Very few of the Class 8 Tractors you see on the road have only 1 axle. Nothing new there.