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China’s Patent Game for Clean-Energy Cars

With over 2000 patents for alternative-energy cars filed last year, China is biting into the market for clean transportation. From Jeff Spross at Think Progress: China has actually been in the patent game for sometime. In 2011,...

Infographic: China’s State-Owned Enterprises

Ministry of Tofu has translated an infographic from CNpolitics.org which illustrates the dominance of state-owned enterprises among China’s largest companies. The largest private Chinese company, Huawei, ranks just 39th...

China as an Innovation Center? Not So Fast

China’s surge in patent applications and impressive R&D spending mask a lack of genuinely groundbreaking work, according to a Wall Street Journal article: Over 95% of the Chinese applications were filed domestically...

When Innovation, Too, Is Made in China

From the New York Times, a reports on China’s ambitions to become an innovation economy: …Can China become a prodigious inventor? The answer, in truth, will play out over decades — and go a long way toward...

China Poised to Lead World in Patent Filings

The New York Times blog reports on a new study showing that China will soon take the lead in patents filed worldwide: Having passed Germany (exports), Japan (gross domestic product) and the United States (auto sales) over the...

China Opens Door To Overseas Patent Applications

From Reuters: China’s parliament on Saturday passed a revised patent law that will permit inventors to seek patents in other countries before obtaining them domestically, opening the door to more filings by Chinese firms...

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