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 has a wide-range of patent-specific and other patent-related policies in-place, many of which are at least …

model patent system, this study illustrates that it is possible to create a useful legal, policy, and institutional … Austria, China, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, and Italy; reasons behind the composition, including any …

the pharmaceutical industries across 29 provinces in the People's Republic of China (PRC) over the period 1998-2007. We …

China has surpassed the United States in patent applications and has become world leader. Strong patenting activity … by electronics manufacturers. State-owned firms spend more on R&D per patent, but hold fewer patents per researcher than … patent holders. Furthermore, the paper examines what drives patenting activity. Higher R&D spending by the firm and higher …

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, like a number of other antitrust jurisdictions, has a law concerning unfair pricing. This article develops an … economic framework for applying the unfair pricing law in China. The framework draws on the experience of courts and …

China has a wide-range of patent-specific and other patent-related policies in-place, many of which are at least …

New measures took effect on 1 January 2014 governing national standards involving patents in China. These measures have … parameters of patent licensing, including FRAND terms, for voluntary national standards; they allow discretion in determining the … necessity of suspending and revising voluntary national standards when patent licensing arrangements are not finalized; they …