About a dozen years ago while reviewing SIPO monthly statistics, I noticed that the percentage of foreign applications for invention patents for the prior year had shrunk to the point where they […]
Prison Inventions and Patent Subsidies
The South China Morning Post reported recently on jailhouse inventors, a topic that you may have first read about here. According to the SCMP and Beijing Youth Daily, various provinces have different […]
China’s Patent Maintenance Crisis
He conquers, who endures. – Persius Does the growth of China’s patent office mean that China is “out-innovating” the West, as some commentators would suggest? Patent applications, patent grants, and analyses of […]
The Other Chinese Patent Development: China’s Autumnal Patent “Hook”
It is 2012, and China’s State Intellectual Property Office (“SIPO”) has once again released its end of the year data on patent filings for the year. While patent data and scientific citation […]
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China 