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Prepared by Peter Li-Chang Kuo ( Chinese ) At the APEC 2000 Brunei , we advocated that “ Intellectual Property Rights ” (IPR) and emphasized the importance of " Copyrights " for original technological and economic systems, was incorporated into the Shanghai APEC Leaders' Declaration in 2001. This year, during another APEC cycle hosted by China , intellectual property has once again become a central topic. In the spring of 1993, during the Lunar New Year, we traveled to Los Angeles at the invitation of Ruth Handler, the inventor of Barbie. On February 13, we made a side trip to visit Disneyland in Anaheim . While waiting in line for " Space Mountain ," our children needed to use the restroom. After leaving the line, we were forced to start over, and ultimately could only ride the carousel—resulting in a very poor user experience. Fig 1: Riding the carousel at Disneyland I then took the " Color Pamphlet " I had prepared for Mrs. Handler — sim...

Prepared by Peter Li-Chang Kuo ( Chinese ) The Taiwan Cartels launched a wave of abusive litigation without any real plaintiff, a campaign of legal violence that pushed the civilized world toward an immense disaster and left millions displaced. Under what amounted to a state-level hijacking, a legendary story of " Social Responsibility Investment " (SRI) was suffocated: In 2004, I built a "Portable TES Simulator," compact enough to carry onto an airplane, and conducted a roadshow from Silicon Valley to New York . Prior to this, Merrill Lynch had given us a valuation of " USD 250 per share ," and PwC recommended that the IPO entity, Panhornic ComMec Holding (PCH), issue " 3 billion shares ." The resulting " USD 750 billion " valuation would have made it the largest IPO in NASDAQ history. Fig 1: The TES Simulator used during the roadshow It remains the most dazzling afternoon in my memory. As I stood on the stage during the Amer...