China’s intellectual property protection: Not too many years ago that would have been considered an oxymoron. Then the Chinese government announced its future economy would be based on innovation, not manufacturing.
With the pump primed by government subsidization, the flow of domestic Chinese patent applications soared from 380,000 in 2005 to nearly a million in 2010. Only about a quarter of these will be examined as patents of invention. The remainder will lead to registrations as utility patents and design patents.
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