Dan Prud’homme of the European Chamber of Commerce in China wrote a study called Dulling the cutting edge: How Patent-Related Policies and Practices Hamper Innovation in China.
To summarise 226 pages: Prud’homme basically says that China’s patent promotion policy which includes quotas per 10,000 people is not conducive to quality and he asserts that some aspects of China’s indigenous innovation policy is still in force.
IP Dragon came to the same conclusion: China is quantity obsessed and quality challenged and the indigenous innovation policy is still active. Read more about these topics below:
Patent quality
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Danny Friedmann China Launches International Patent Database (May 16, 2011)
Danny Friedmann Patents in China: Quantity Obsessed Quality Challenged (April 12, 2011)
Danny Friedmann Incremental Pharmaceutical Inventions in China and India: “No Need to Reinvent the Wheel” (January 31, 2010)
Danny Friedman Almost One Million Patent Applications in China in 2009 (January 28, 2010)
Danny Friedmann Patent Quality in China: “You could patent a wheel” (July 3, 2008)
Indigenous innovation policy
Danny Friedmann The Bad euh … Good euh … Bad News On Indigenous Innovation in China (July 25, 2011)
Danny Friedmann USITC: “China’s IP and Indigenous Innovation Cost U.S. 48,2 billion dollar” (May 9, 2011)
Danny Friedmann Intellectual Property and Indigenous Innovation, Two Opposite Roads For Foreign IPR Holders (April 28, 2011)
Danny Friedmann Joint-venture with technology transfer no panacea for market access to China’s aviation industry (April 7, 2011)
Danny Friedmann 32 Senators Urge Vice-Premier State Council to Fix IPR and Indigenous Innovation Policy in China (December 12, 2010)
Danny Friedmann China Launched 10-Year National Patent Development Strategy (November 23, 2010)
Danny Friedmann November 17: USCC Report about Indigenous Innovation, WTO and Disclosure Requirements (Novermber 5, 2010)
Danny Friedmann Indigenous Innovation in China: Soup Will Not Be Eaten As Hot As Cooked (April 30, 2010)