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. 

Table of Contents:
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.

About the Author :
Dr. Dan PRUD'HOMME is an associate professor at the EMLV Business School at Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci (Paris, France). He is also a non-resident senior researcher at the GLORAD Center for Global R&D and Innovation at Tongji University (Shanghai, China) and a non-resident research associate at Duke University's Kunshan, China campus. Previously, he worked in the private sector in Beijing and Shanghai, China. Dan has consulted on intellectual property issues for the World Bank, China’s State Intellectual Property Office (now CNIPA), the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), and the European Commission. He has taught intellectual property management, international innovation management, strategic management, and global risk management at universities in Europe and China. Dan holds a PhD in management from Macquarie Graduate School of Management (Sydney, Australia) and graduate degrees in law and public policy. For a year after his doctoral studies, he was a visiting research fellow and teaching fellow at the University of Oxford (UK). Dr. ZHANG Taolue (Paul) is a professor at Tongji University’s Law School (Shanghai, China) and Deputy Director of the Tongji University Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law Research Center. He also sits on the board of the technology transfer office at Tongji University. Paul specializes in patent law, patent-related antitrust issues, and comparative legal studies. He has taught intellectual property law for more than fifteen years and extensively practiced intellectual property law in the private sector in China. He has also consulted for China’s State Intellectual Property Office (now CNIPA), the Shanghai Intellectual Property Administration, and China’s Ministry of Education. Paul is co-founder and co-editor of the Intellectual Property and Competition Law Review, the first Chinese academic journal thatfocuses on the overlapping fields of intellectual property law and competition law. Paul has a PhD in intellectual property management from Tongji University and a graduate degree in law from Peking University (Beijing, China).