I am responding to the article, headlined Innovative invention makes splash with boaters, on page B1 of your Dec. 14 edition
It seems like a great idea, so congratulations, and while it is good to hear that locally built units are still available, to say “that due to the world market demand the bulk of orders are now made in China” seems puzzlingly disingenuous.
With respect, surely it is not that the world demand could not be satisfied by domestic manufacture, so why not be frank if one must say anything? Assert that it may be manufactured for even less overseas and, therefore, enable more profit.
Profit is not a dirty word – business needs profit to continue.
Yet prior to the swing to overseas production, people were always prepared to pay a reasonable price for goods, and patents secure the rights of innovators to declare who may produce their creations and where.
This enables the extra benefits and incentives of patent monopolies created and granted by governments (read fellow people) as a just reward for ingenuity that improves life and creates jobs, to be evenly distributed and balanced where possible with goods, which must be imported, thereby equitably returning and fairly contributing to the national economy.
Stuart Fox
Inventors Association Of Australia
