FourthAmendment of the China Patent Law, which shall become effective as of June 1, 2021. The Amendment materializes the continuing … spirit of enhancing patent protection in China, e.g., introducing one to five times punitive damages for willful infringement …On October 17, 2020, China’s top legislature, Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (SCNPC), adopted the …

This paper uncovers over 10 central level and over 150 provincial/municipal level patent targets, mostly to be met by … the absence of important criteria for ensuring patent quality. Further, the overly heavy focus on just a few types of … quantitative patent targets (e.g., for patent applications and patents granted) overshadows the type of benchmarking that better …

China's patent system is not significantly different from those in most countries, though it is more oriented towards … promoting technology diffusion rather than protecting inventors' rights. Since China patent law came into force in 1985, foreign …This study examines patterns of foreign patents and their determinants in China from 1985 to 1999. It reveals that …

measuring the pharmaceutical patent protection in China (PPP index) to analyze its correlation with inward pharmaceutical FDI … analysis suggests that enhancing drug patent protection could have had a positive impact on inward pharmaceutical FDI in China … industries and countries’ features. Our research considers the pharmaceutical industry in China. This choice stems from a …