As China’s IP engine continues to power up, the West remains blind to what is happening here. China now leads the worlds in patents. China’s companies aren’t just doing junk patents filed as unexamined, low-cost utility model applications in China. Two of the top five international patent filers, filing expensive, examined, international patent applications, are …
Innovators need to recognize that there are numerous IP risks that their new products and services may face. Sometimes a little attention to your supply chain, packaging, and business model can greatly reduce those risks. An excellent resource on this topic, from which I have drawn a couple of suggestions, is “IP risk assessments – …
One of the great ironies of politics is that measures intended to solve problems often intensify them. The North American Free Trade Agreement, for example, was touted as a means to promote “free trade” and make it easier on companies to do business in North America. The reality is not always that way. NAFTA, like …
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