How China Became An IP Superpower

By Jay Erstling, Patterson Thuente Pedersen PA ( May 10, 2017, 12:21 PM EDT) -- Stereotypes die hard. China has repeatedly been labeled an intellectual property pirate and wholesale IP rights violator. While those labels may have been true in the past (and perhaps are still true in limited cases), they no longer accurately describe the IP situation in China. The U.S. Trade Representative and the U.S.-China Business Council have both recognized improvements in the Chinese IP regime; nevertheless, negative labels persist. The reality is that China has come an enormously long way since it first embraced a functioning IP system in the early 1980s. Today China is an IP superpower, and applicants who overlook China do so at their peril....

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