According to an article coauthored by mark Cohen in the September 2021 issue of Nature Biotechnology, government planning and targets for patents in China, while boosting overall quantity, negatively impacted overall quality. Quality concerns were manifested by a clear end-of-year trough in forward citations of patents filed near year’s end.
Recent Research of USPTO
This is the first in a series of blogs on recent research. The USPTO just released its report on Trademarks and Patents in China, The Impact of Non-Market Factors on Filing Trends […]
SIPO’s Data Shows Continued High Demand for IP Information in China
SIPO recently published its 2013 data on hits on Chinese government IP websites. Overall, there were 2,974,407,259 hits on Chinese government IP system portal websites in 2013. Total numbers of distinct on […]
The End of Year Hook in Administrative Patent Enforcement?
Along with Prof. Zhen Lei of Penn State, I have previously blogged about the late autumn surge in patent filings in China, in 2012, as well as in prior years. This autumnal […]
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 