The development of intellectual property in China

Deli Yang

World Patent Information, 2003, vol. 25, issue 2, 131-142

Abstract: This article traces the history of intellectual property (IP) development in China and demonstrates the evolutionary change before, and especially the revolutionary change after, the Open Door Policy from 1979. This development of the IP system in China is set out in the context of its social, economic and historical roots. The influence of the major international IP treaties to which China has acceded, such as the Paris Convention, Patent Cooperation Treaty, World Trade Organisation, is described. The many IP statutes within China, and their effects, are defined. The article identifies both positive and negative effects of these major changes and stresses the necessity of constant improvements to the current system of IP protection and enforcement for the economic development of China.

Keywords: China; Intellectual; property; History; Open; door; policy; World; Trade; Organisation; (WTO); World; Intellectual; Property; Organisation; (WIPO); Economic; reform; Multinational; enterprise; Patent; law; Trade; mark; law; Enforcement; procedures; US; trade; agreements; Political; influences; Philosophical; influences; Indigenous; technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (14)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0172-2190(03)00026-7
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:worpat:v:25:y:2003:i:2:p:131-142

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/supportfaq.cws_home/regional
http://www.elsevier. ... _01_ooc_1&version=01

Access Statistics for this article

World Patent Information is currently edited by Michael Blackman

More articles in World Patent Information from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().