Enough is Enough': Sanders Demands Treasury Block Pfizer Tax Dodging Deal

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(03-22-2016, 04:44 PM)JustWinBaby Wrote: You do not have to be a US citizen or corporation to apply for and obtain a US patent.  Over half of US patents granted, and re-issued, in 2014 had foreign origin.

As usual, this is a bunch of bluster making promises or justifications that completely ignore how the world actually operates.

To the bold, yes, and so what?

That applies to the company's protection of the patent in the U.S. It doesn't have anything to do outside, those require patents filed in those countries. It relies on cooperative agreements between the patent office and those countries through WIPO. As a foreign company with a US patent isn't a US company, none of the U.S. offices dealing with IPs, patents or copyrights are going to open those channels and help out a foreign company.

And it shouldn't be bluster. If everyone is allowed to defer their taxes and never pay them, it all stops. There are zero dollars coming in to operate the government, pave roads, have a military, etc. Keep trying to spin that into everyone else being clueless, but if — as a business owner — the government lets me not pay taxes for years, and I take that money and go to another country, then the government has no money to operate off of. As I said earlier, deferring gains to offset losses is one thing. Never paying taxes owed is not that.