No Such Thing as a Two Way Street

I don't have a lot of love for the French, but this is really a crock:

A Chinese court has ordered France’s Schneider Electric to pay a Chinese company $45m in damages for infringing its patent, the largest amount ever awarded in an intellectual property case in the country.

Intellectual property violations are one of the main sources of friction between China and the rest of the world, and in the vast majority of IPR cases involving foreign players, the Chinese company is the defendant.

If you look at any infringement case against a Chinese company, the awards are always $5,000 or in a particularly egregious case $45,000. If I were the French government, I'd have a bit of a heart to heart with the Chinese government and explain that if they want to keep dressing their children in Burberry diapers, they better rethink that award amount.