The number of international patent applications in china has exceeded that in japan
In recent days, when the white house trade “big stick” is being watched around the globe, the japanese media has been neurologically pushed by another source – china’s number of international patent applications is higher than that of japan, making the world the second largest. The japan economic news pointed out that, against the backdrop of japan's changing position in terms of technological statehood, the intellectual property sector was moving towards the era of the “sino-american” two powers。
China has moved from technology users to technology producers
On 21 march, the world intellectual property organization (wipo) published statistics on applications for international patents, such as global companies, for 2017, which show a 13. 4 per cent increase in the number of applications for patents in china from 2016 to 48,882, up from 48,208 in japan to second place. Js2 stated that the number of applications in japan had also increased by 6. 6 per cent over the previous year, but was third in the margin. The number of applications last year was 56624。
According to domestic media reports, china was the only country in 2017 to record double-digit increases in patent applications. Since 2003, china has grown at an annual rate of over 10 per cent. According to the world intellectual property organization (wipo): “in line with current trends, china is expected to surpass the united states in the next three years, becoming the largest source of wipo patent cooperation treaty applications”
“china is becoming an intellectual property `powerful country'” is an open-minded view of the japanese media when it comes to this news, and the outside world has always maintained a “powerful look” at china as to how it becomes a `powerful country' and where it comes from. The latest report in the japan economic news mentions that china has set out the goal of “building a strong intellectual property power” in the “thirteen five” national science, technology and innovation plan. The system of protection of intellectual property rights will be improved, penalties for violations of intellectual property rights will be increased, and national efforts will be made to improve the intellectual property market environment。
In early march, the russian newspaper the independent quoted the opinion of the economic analyst, alchom jeyev, that china was currently confronted with increased pressure from the united states and a new global crisis. “china has had to promote its technologies and products to its major trading partners while rapidly completing external orders. Only then will china be able to maintain a sense of security in times of intense turmoil and compete for new world leadership.”
In the face of the clear need to move towards high-quality development, technological innovation is clearly an essential condition for development to move to a new height, both in the long-term vision and in the short term. The facts are reassuring. The director-general of the world intellectual property organization, francis gaurn, said: “it is necessary to note the remarkable transformation that is taking place in the chinese economy, which has moved from being a major technology user to being a technology producer”
The spokesman for the ministry of foreign affairs, wah chun-chun, is equally concerned about the other statement that preceded him: as china’s share of the increase in global patent applications shows, china’s innovation trends are gradually becoming a global leader in innovation and branding。
“china is firmly pursuing its innovation-driven development strategy. We hope that china's efforts and achievements in this regard will be viewed objectively and fairly.”
Intellectual property protection overseas needs to be strengthened
In recent years, there has been much news of the “strength of power” of technological innovation in china, and the proliferation of patent applications has often been linked to china's investment in technological innovation. At the end of february this year, then minister of science and technology wan gang said that china's total r & d expenditure in 2017 was approximately rmb 1. 76 trillion, an increase of 14 per cent compared to 2016 and 70. 9 per cent compared to 2012。
According to the united states journal of research and development, china spent nearly $445 billion (in purchasing power parity terms) on r & d in 2017, after the united states, 538. 0 billion, the second largest in the world。
At a time when the number of patents has continued to grow and new technologies have become a major feature of china’s exports, the urgency of increasing awareness and enforcement of intellectual property rights protection has become increasingly evident. In an interview with the reference network, liu weiping, a researcher at the national development bank, explained that, in the context of increasing investment abroad in china and the growing development of enterprises abroad, chinese enterprises and the government must improve their ability to protect themselves, establish a system of international and domestic protection, and pay attention to cooperation with international enterprises, which is more concerned with intellectual property protection。
Liu weiping said that we had to use legal means to protect the global use of china's legitimate intellectual property rights. At the same time, china's international law and intellectual property law need to be strengthened in terms of institutional design, law development and enforcement。
