China?s patent office received more patent applications than any other country?s in 2011, according to The Economist. It?s tempting to attribute this upward trend to increased innovation in the Chinese economy; however, there are other contributing factors.
Ten years ago, most patent applications in China were filed by US and European inventors. This is no longer the case: 2011 saw an increasing number of patent applications filed in China by Chinese nationals. What does this increase mean?
China?s Increase in Patent Applicants: A Closer Look
In America and Europe, foreigners lodge approximately half of patent applications filed. In China, patent applications by locals now constitute three-quarters of total applications (see the adjacent chart, from The Economist).
It?s tempting to ascribe this growth in local patent applications to increased innovation by a rising Chinese entrepreneurial class ? however, there are grounds for skepticism.
In China, government subsidies provide significant incentives for people to file patent applications.
Furthermore, Chinese patent offices tend to treat patent applications more leniently ? and approve a greater proportion of overall applications ? than their international counterparts.
Patenting Abroad: A Useful Metric
The UN?s World Intellectual Property Office has recently released figures that suggest the apparent spurt in Chinese innovation may be illusory: Very few Chinese inventors seek to patent their ideas abroad.
Between 2005 and 2009 fewer than 5% of Chinese inventors sought to patent abroad. Compare this with the US, where the figure was 27%, and Europe, where it was more than 40%.
Measuring a patent?s value is fraught with difficulty ? however, genuine inventors tend to seek a patent in multiple markets, because there?s a strong economic incentive to patent genuine innovations. If you?re seeking to file a patent abroad, you can find out more about essential translation requirements here.
Of course, the number of patents filed abroad is an imperfect metric to gauge patent value; however, it stems from an appealing intuition: if an invention is genuinely groundbreaking, with significant commercial application, then inventors will want their technology protected in as many potential markets as possible.
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Source: http://www.legallanguage.com/legal-articles/china-patents-innovation/
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