Some years back,Cisco sued huaweii for cloning their hardware and Operating system on their range of network routers. Cisco sued huaweii and an out of court settlement was reached.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei

Low cost labour allows countries like china to dedicate massive resource to unravelling intricacies of western technologies and re-brand them (with minor changes) as their own ...

Huaweii routers cost a third of their Cisco equivalent ..

What does the future hold? Soon we will all be eating out of bowls!