most attractive destinations to technology intensive FDI, for instance, pharmaceutical FDI. To explore whether patent … measuring the pharmaceutical patent protection in China (PPP index) to analyze its correlation with inward pharmaceutical FDI … literature - the most sensitive to patent protection, i.e., drugs producing and/or research and development (R&D) FDI. Our …

With more than 13 million patent applications submitted before SIPO, China has become one of the most important patent … facilitate the public use of patent information, SIPO has made great efforts to provide the public with user friendly and … functional patent databases for searching patents. The overall China patent status is introduced to reflect the growing China …

rights (IPR) regimes. Weak IPR regimes usually feature weak patent enforcement, such as relatively low level of compensation … among utility models- the type of patents inferior to invention patents. I also document that China’s patent infringement …. These empirical patterns suggest that weak IPR regimes might create a “lemon market” for patent protection in which truly …