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China Breaks Patent Application Record (bbc.com)
China-based inventors applied for a record-setting number of patents last year. The country accounted for more than a million submissions, according to an annual report by the World Intellectual Property Organization (Wipo). It said the figure was "extraordinary". From a BBC report:A total of 2.9 million patent applications were filed worldwide in 2015, according to Wipo, marking a 7.8% rise on the previous year. China can lay claim to driving most of that growth. Its domestic patent office -- the Property Office of the People's Republic of China (Sipo) -- received a record 1,101,864 filings. Many of the filings were for innovations in telecoms, computing, semiconductors and medical tech. Beijing had urged companies to boost the number of such applications. But some experts have cast doubt as to whether it signifies that the country is truly more inventive than others, since most of China's filings were done locally.
People who literally couldn't care less about the intellectual property of others patent their own stuff? Just...wow.
What does it cost to go through the patent filing process in China? Is it as onerous as it is in the United States?
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
China will cripple American business with patent lawsuits. Then what will the people say who thought that patenting side to unlock was such a great idea?
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
good think trump will kill the TPP so that isds can not be used to enforce them. China may not be part of the TPP but they can use back doors in the isds system.
How many of those patent applications were essentially ideas ripped off from other countries? China has an extremely long history of intellectual theft.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
If you say somebody there is one in a million, that means they've got 1400 more like them.
From what I am reading a massive majority of china's patents ore domestic and hardly any of them have been reviewed or tested. There is a massive amount of corruption within the chinese patent system with patent legal offices openly allowing what is now termed as "junk patents" though that have no innovative value (did someone say corruption). It is only when you look at how many "international patents" china registers that you realise that the 1 million number is all smoke and mirrors (pretty much how I view the whole chinese economy).
>But some experts have cast doubt as to whether it signifies that the country is truly more inventive than others, since most of China's filings were done locally.
Why would they need to? All the shit US is buying is made in China. And they don't even need to bother with underhanded tricks like software patents as Chinese courts simply don't recognize foreign patents except for Russian, Cuban, North Korean, and from *stans since they shared patent system back in commie times. Chinese company has to simply claim the invention first domestically for them to be enforceable.
Look, Apple was already made to pay 3 or 4 times to Chinese patent holders. One of the claimants who won retributions against them was 60+ granny with no lawyer who basically claimed a patent on a generic dipole antenna tuner. Another, a generic claim on crypto handshake. In both cases, Apple was defending with "this software is not made in China, and we don't manufacture our phones ourselves", and in both cases they were made to pay under a threat of injunction and seizure of iphones right off Foxconn's assembly lines.
Now analyze that. Americans invented that WIPO shit to fuck everybody, but now are getting fcuked themselves. Microsoft pays few bucks per Windooze install to Huawei since they patented the "wireless icon" and there would be no shit chance that Huawei would have allowed Windooze to be installed on any hardware manufactured by Chinese OEMs
How can they claim it's their IP if information used to created it was obtained by theft? (not every case but I am confident more that one patient has been produced from stolen research).
Didn't take long.
First to file does not mean first to invent.
You have to remember the Soviets used to do this too.
And the Japanese.
I don't blame the Chinese for doing what they do, if I were them, I'd be doing the same, especially since the NSA taps all their communications, but doesn't share the results with American inventors.
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I bet you'll find 99% of them are already in the US patent system under some variant or other.
The Chinese are good at one thing, and one thing only: Copyright infringement.
This flood most likely sets back all the offices from doing actual work.
Another reason the patent system needs to be reformed and that AI should play a large part in this, things should not be so ambiguous in this day and age.