China’s Intellectual Property Regime for Innovation

Dr. Dan PRUD'HOMME is an Associate Professor at the EMLV School of Business at Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci (Paris, France). He is also a non-resident Senior Researcher at the GLORAD Center for Global R&D and Innovation at Tongji University (Shanghai, China). He holds a Ph.D. in management and graduate degrees in law and public policy and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (UK). Prior to that he was based in Beijing and Shanghai, China, where he consulted on intellectual property issues for the World Bank, China’s State Intellectual Property Office (now CNIPA), the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the EU-China “IP Key” division of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). Dan also managed the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China’s IPR and R&D working groups. He has taught intellectual property management, international innovation management, strategic management, and global risk management at universities in Europe and China.Dr. ZHANG Taolue (Paul) is a professor at Tongji University’s Law School and Deputy Director of the Tongji University Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law Research Center. He also sits on the board of the technology transfer office at Tongji University. Paul specializes in patent law, patent-related antitrust issues, and comparative legal studies. He has taught intellectual property law for over fifteen years and extensively practiced intellectual property law in law firms in China. He has also consulted for China’s State Intellectual Property Office (now CNIPA), the Shanghai Intellectual Property Administration, and China’s Ministry of Education. Paul is co-founder and co-editor of the Intellectual Property and Competition Law Review, the first Chinese academic journal that focuses on the overlapping fields of intellectual property law and competition law. Paul has a PhD in intellectual property management and a graduate degree in law.

Introduction.- China's substantive intellectual property laws for innovation.- Patent quantity, quality, and the Chinese state.- China's IP policies for transmission and exploitation of technological knowledge.- New experimental IP measures in China.- Administration of patents in China.- Patent enforcement in China.- Risk assessment tools for businesses and other stakeholders.- Conclusions.