{"id":1781,"date":"2015-04-01T08:36:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T07:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/china-research\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2015-04-01T08:36:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T07:36:44","slug":"chinese-patents-gain-momentum-but-still-insufficient-transparency-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/china-research\/?p=1781","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Patents Gain Momentum \u2013 But Still Insufficient Transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) \u2013 an agency of the United Nations \u2013 China was ranked in 2014 as the number three PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty ) application country in the world, summing up its filing to totally 25\u00a0539. It should be added that the WIPO totally gathers nearly 190 member states. According to the WIPO\u2019s website, the \u201cPCT assists applicants in seeking patent protection internationally for their inventions \u2026 By filing one international patent application under the PCT, applicants can simultaneously seek protection for an invention in 148 countries throughout the world&#8230; \u201c<\/p>\n<p>This good Chinese ranking last year gave a global \u201cmarket\u201d share of almost 12%, after the U.S. (29%) and Japan (20%), and before Germany (somewhat above 8%). The Swedish share turned out to be relatively high (close to 2 %, 3925 applications, no 10 globally) \u2013 but 0.7% came alone from Ericsson; the total Swedish market share, however, has been declining somewhat compared to 2013. In the Chinese case, 1.6 % of all global PCT applications could be related to Huawei \u2013 the largest patent applier in the world \u2013 and 1% to ZTE (both representing the telecom and mobile business).<\/p>\n<p>One may also note that other BRICS countries \u2013 if we still use this somewhat obsolete term \u2013 so far achieved very modest PCT-applications numbers compared to China\u2019s 25 539 (India 1394, Russia 890, Brazil 581, South Africa 297; see also BOFIT Weekly 13\/2015). China is indeed very ambitious when it comes to new technology and new products which I pointed at before a couple of times when discussing the strategic communiqu\u00e9 from the Third Plenum from November 2013 with its 16 chapters and 60 subchapters, many of them shadowing the New Growth Theory created by Paul Romer and consortes (who, by the way, would be a dignified Nobel Prize winner this year).<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, however, one should not neglect that China\u2019s PCT application numbers are misleading to some extent, even if it is hard to be more precise on what \u201cto some extent\u201d means in reality. We know that a substantial share of the Chinese applications do not stick to what can be called inventions in a real innovative sense. People I have been talking to have \u201cguestimates\u201d that only around one fourth or so of all Chinese PCT applications were justified from a strict innovative angle \u2013 but the same experts pointed also at the obvious fast upturn of <em>genuine<\/em> new Chinese patents and some slight general improvement of the enforcement of the Chinese patent law (see on this issue <em>Ying Zhan<\/em>, \u201cProblems of Enforcement of Patent Law in China and its Ongoing Fourth Amendment\u201d, Journal of Intellectual Property Rights, July 2014). In this context, Ying Zhan stresses the view that the Intellectual Property Right (IPR) system is a \u201cWestern imported system that takes more time to root in China\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Altogether, there is no doubt that China is an increasingly important player on the global patent market \u2013 also what concerns the number and market share of technologically advanced innovations. But I would appreciate more transparency in this respect \u2013 and more and better research in this specific issue. Well-working patents are an important part of a promising innovation climate \u2013 and a promising and further improved innovation climate must be regarded as one of the decisive cornerstones of China\u2019s new, future-oriented growth policy.<\/p>\n<p>We should follow these trends that probably will affect us more than most of us imagine today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image.lnu.se\/image.ashx?id=117818&amp;w=110\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" height=\"136\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Hubert Fromlet<\/em><\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em>Senior Professor of International Economics, Linnaeus University<br \/>\n<a href=\"..\/editorial-board\/\">Editorial board<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/china-research\">Back to Start Page<\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) \u2013 an agency of the United Nations \u2013 China was ranked in 2014 as the number three PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty ) application country in the world, summing up its filing to totally 25\u00a0539. 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