Originally Posted By: gunman
Comments about patents on the Webley 700 . Any such would have long expired by this time and as I seem to recall either the Japanese were not signatories to international paten agreements or they generally ignored them . In either case it would not have been relevant .


I have heard that the japanese word for copy is the same as the japanese word for learn, and they certainly were shameless about copying other peoples work, much as the chinese are today.