International Patenting Strategies of Chinese Residents: An Analysis of Foreign-Oriented Patent Families

Download or read book International Patenting Strategies of Chinese Residents: An Analysis of Foreign-Oriented Patent Families written by World Intellectual Property Organization and published by WIPO. This book was released on 2014 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyzes Chinese patenting abroad by using WIPO’s foreign-oriented patent family dataset and a respective enterprise questionnaire. It finds that by the turn of the century China emerged as major actor in terms of international patenting. While this is changing rapidly, the share of Chinese patents which get filed abroad is still a fraction of total patents filed at home and most patents still also only target one foreign IP office. Chinese foreign-oriented patent families are concentrated in a few technology fields, and a few Chinese firms are responsible for a large share of total Chinese patents filed abroad.