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Companies that may have viewed Japanese imitation as an annoying form of flattery are now aggressively trying to protect their hard-earned knowledge from the Japanese.Corning Glass persuaded a federal judge that Sumitomo Electric stole its patent for making fiber-optic cable, a discovery central to the development of all-purpose, high-capacity telecommunications. The judge ruled that Sumitomo had blatantly copied Corning's design for adding selected impurities to glass fiber so it will carry light efficiently.