China's Intellectual Property Regime for Innovation: Risks to Business and National Development

This book evaluates the risks that China's intellectual property (IP) regime poses to innovation. China's IP regime has been heavily criticized as potentially stifling innovation. However, the country's innovation capabilities have risen significantly and major reforms have recently been made to its IP regime. How risky, really, is China's IP regime for innovation? This book investigates this question at different units of analysis based on a multidisciplinary assessment involving law, management, economics, and political science. Specifically, it critically appraises China's substantive IP laws, measures for boosting patent quantity and quality, measures for transmitting and exploiting technological knowledge, new experimental IP measures, and China's systems for administering and enforcing IP. Practitioners and scholars from various backgrounds can benefit from the up-to-date analysis as well as the practical managerial tools provided, including risk assessment matrices for businesses and recommendations for institutional reform.

Introduction.- China's substantive intellectual property laws for innovation.- Patent quantity, quality, and the Chinese state.- China's IP policies for transmission and exploitation of technological knowledge.- New experimental IP measures in China.- Administration of patents in China.- Patent enforcement in China.- Risk assessment tools for businesses and other stakeholders.- Conclusions.