No Chinese patents for inventions outside China?
Duncan Bucknell’s site updates:
Danny Friedmann, our China Law expert put up an interesting post at IP Dragon, his popular China IP blog last week: Discover Your Invention in China Or Lose Protection.
That’s right folks, China is considering disallowing patents to inventions made outside China. Maybe this can be turned around today, but what about when China becomes the world’s leading super economic power?
What if this forces other large economies to go down the same route and what about inventions co-invented in two countries?
Setting aside the macro economic and political issues for a moment…
So what can you do about it? One suggestion on Danny’s bog is to always have a Chinese subsidiary or collaborator involved in your R&D. A bit awkward and expensive, but if you have to do it, so be it.
Perhaps another is to start campaigning or educating now to avoid this? What would you add?