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"It amazes me that the narrative is still out there about how China is an
“intellectual property thief” and that the US and other western nations need to
“convince China to respect intellectual property.” We heard that for decades,
but for over a decade now, we’ve been pointing out that China responded to all
that scolding by massively ramping up its efforts to obtain patents for Chinese
companies, and then using those patents to sue western companies. That is, just
as we predicted, all the screaming to pressure China into “respecting IP” was
literally handing China a protectionist weapon. Which it’s been using. A lot.
To the point that some US officials have started freaking out, and arguing that
the US should ignore Chinese attempts to enforce its patents.
The
Financial Times has an article on the latest, which is that China is
basically now a patenting powerhouse and is using it to cause serious trouble,
especially when it comes to patents used in standards, or so called “standard
essential patents” or SEPs. We’ve talked about SEPs in the past, as they’re
incredibly lucrative if you can get your patent included in a SEP, as it’s
basically a ticket for printing money… and for making sure that basic core
technology has to come from certain companies. And that’s of tremendous
interest to Chinese telecommunications equipment firms…"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
