"The Chinese are trying to appropriate the intellectual property"
On February 15, 2011 by Ana Lutzky
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Since yesterday, 14 February 2011 China is the second largest economy, its GDP has exceeded that of Japan. China is the fourth patent filing abroad. A double performance that puts a new light on both the turn of the Middle Kingdom. Frank Tetaz, intellectual property specialist, discusses the numbers with the Factory New.
L'Usine Nouvelle - According to figures issued last week by WIPO, China is the fourth global patent filing. Is this remarkable?
Franck Tetaz (associate at consulting firm Regimbeau) - is dazzling. China introduced in 2010 and about twelve thousand patents, with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). It is now the fourth behind the U.S., Japan and Germany. The number of patent applications exploded: it grew by 56.2% in 2010, and has tripled since 2006!
careful what that means: this is a prerequisite to filing a patent abroad. The figure released by WIPO for PCT patents filed with the agency, not those filed in China.
What is a PCT?
With TCP, a company buys time to protect themselves abroad. It's a fairly simple formality, in one language for 180 countries. But that does not give patent: it must then file a patent for each country.
The number of patents filed in China is for its 300,000. By comparison, 12,000 PCT, this is nothing!
Does it mean that China is innovating a lot and starts to export its technology abroad?
must be cautious when it comes to figures from China. It is a planned economy. However, innovation is the priority of the great helmsman of the moment, official speeches show. President Hu Jintao wants to move the country towards a more non- the "toolbox", but technology: before we had to factories, now we must innovate. Beijing displays the same goals: to be at 50,000 PCT patents filed with WIPO in 3 years.
voluntarism is in Chinese. Beijing achieved its objectives by deploying the slogan after local party leaders, and giving bonuses to each PCT filed.
Behind these 12,000 patents, there would be wind?
For now, the rate of conversion of a PCT national patent application is very low: Chinese entrepreneurs give up and not going through. Only special cases give rise to genuine patent application in France or Europe.
First, because it's expensive. We must translate the document using a translator, and be represented physically with WIPO. French SMEs that we accompany and want to protect their technology in China must pay between 6,000 and 10,000 euros, depending on the size of the text.
giant Chinese telecommunications ZTE has filed its own patent 2000. Place it in Europe, it is a bonanza of 8 million. Add the United States, and the budget that the Chinese company should devote to protecting its innovations $ 16 million. This has something to cool his ardor industrial property! Only by this phenomenon, there is loss.
half of patents are rounded up by telecom companies. A highlight of China?
fact, ZTE is the second ranking (1863 applications). Another great actor of the Chinese sector, Huawei (1528 applications) is fourth. This does not surprise me.
These protection practices related to the type of innovation. In telecoms, life cycles are quite low. Many innovations are small dots on process. The strategy is then to have a lot of patents to create a mass effect, occupy the field and hinder competition. The company seeks to impose itself by mass more than by quality, to have an active approach so that if at any time just to annoy his rival, she has something bothering her too. Companies jaugent is the weight of paper available to them! And then they make arrangements.
pharmacy In the contrary, the life cycles are longer. You need a patent and a single, but strong in the long term, to cope with a generic manufacturer, for example.
The number of PCT filed is a good indicator of breath innovative country, provided they look sector by sector.
What teaching French companies can draw from this momentum Chinese?
The Chinese are currently ownership of intellectual property and better protect their own innovations. They begin to litigation between them. The use of utility models, "sort of" patent lite ', is spreading in the mechanics and electronics. He must be aware. Many still think it's the Wild West and all it takes to pay. Ongoing trials in China of industrial property, there are hundreds.
How can SMEs react?
French SMEs must take care and protect their marks against their subcontractors, for example. Schneider was sentenced to 31 million for infringement because a subcontractor had filed its technology on Chinese territory. Need to plan, make the documentary watch.
http://www.usinenouvelle.com/article/les-chinois-sont-en-train-de-s-approprier-la-propriete-intellectuelle.N146623
This utility model "patent light" has a life span shorter than a standard patent : 10 years against 20 years for a standard patent. It is also less expensive because the applicant does not comply with an initial review.
I personally accompanied the network Curie who had organized a conference in Shanghai on the enhancement of public research. We visited a center of activity south of Shanghai. Where we only saw a few fences and a yard, is preparing the first Asian manufacturer of monoclonal antibodies nucléaux the pharmaceutical industry.
_________ new plant _________
Poor China, she did not understand anything!
In China the patent is of some importance, also in Germany, Merkel needs 200,000 engineers to precisely register patents and receive subsidies through sales or licensing. From coup as an opportunity is provided, it shall carry out a glaze technology by filing patent pre need not be proven ...
A patent is a number of conditions to get certain effects. What the Chinese is the mantra technology.
Idiots who would feel bound by shots fired at the comet.
A patent is a number of conditions to get certain effects. What the Chinese is the mantra technology.
Idiots who would feel bound by shots fired at the comet.
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In France, it is smarter, the patent race we knew how to contain it, no files more patent and virtually no individual can not file it, contrary to a long tradition ...
see contests etc. Lepine
see contests etc. Lepine
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What we do not invent, we will pay dearly if we buy it, yet t be - it lucky that it be put on sale ...
The best plan for becoming a country of zero, it is in France and elsewhere.
The best plan for becoming a country of zero, it is in France and elsewhere.
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zero pollution, zero growth, zero progress, zero safety, welfare near zero.
Why continue to pay?
Changing, back to full employment.
Possibly, this was done!
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S. C ARVAJAL
Strategic Management and Innovations.
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