All's not well in China, page-271

You have obviously never worked in the higher
management end of manufacturing. IMO.

Manufacturers continually take competitors' designes/techiques
and copy them with just enough variation that, arguably, they
are not infringing patent/IP

Just look at the evolution of the global motor industry for example.
The design of the internal combustion engine was
taken by hundreds of emerging manufacturers , tweaked
a little and then mass produced. Similarly with other key
auto components. The Yanks did this wholesale from Germany,
France and the UK in the early 20th C and then made a
manufacturing success of it by economy of scale.(eg Henry Ford)

This was followed by the Japs, Koreans and now the Chinese
who are the biggest auto manufacturers in the world.

Its fine and dandy to say a corporation is stealing another's
patent/IP but its entirely another thing to prove it in an
international court of law . Samsung-Apple discovered
that in hi-tech recently incurring $hundreds of millions in legal costs

And finally, propriety rights are a capitalist invention; so if
you don't believe in capitalism, then why should abide by
its rules?

IMO medicines are at the forefront of patent/IP claims
and of course the bottom line here is that the more
successful a Pharma company can be in protecting
its patents, the more the consumer has to pay for the
protected product.

Evidence: Last week I had to pay E360 ($600 our peso)
in Europe for 30 pills of Covid antiviral medicine just
because Pfizer owns the patent (at present) ; but I'm sure
that the Chinese, Indians and Russians are copying it right now
and for good reasons.