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Dehydrating Innovation in Europe: EFSA and Beverage Innovation

One of the hottest areas for innovation globally is in improved foods and beverages that benefit human health. Unfortunately, bureaucrats are among the biggest barriers that innovators face in this field. In the United States, something as uncontroversial as the well-known relationship between citrus fruit and scurvy (that is, citrus fruit can prevent or help …

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Invisible Innovation: The Blindness of the West to China’s Innovation Story

Maybe China is just too far from the smug innovation circles of the West. Maybe language and cultural barriers make the events unfolding in China too inaccessible to Western media. Maybe decades of concern about IP theft from Chinese companies has closed the eyes of the West to present realities. Whatever the reason, the West …

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Finding and Retaining Technical and Creative Talent: A Key to Innovation Success in China

Yesterday I had the privilege of visiting the beautiful campus of Tongji University in Shanghai where I was a speaker at a workshop on innovation and managing R&D in China. This international event was organized by a highly respected expert in global R&D management, Dr. Max von Zedtwitz, founder of GLORAD, a firm that helps …

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The Bogus IP Registration Scam: Becoming a Global Phenomenon, Beware!

The good folks at the China Law Blog recently discussed a common scam that occurs in China. Actually, this is a scam that is shaking down small and large companies and lone inventors all over the globe. I’ve warned against it in the US for a long time and was intrigued to see it is …

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Subtle Corruption? The Weakening of US Patent Rights

One of the troubling trends in US patent law, a trend I first heard about roughly a decade ago in a course “Drafting and Crafting Winning Patents” from Patent Resources Group, was the tendency for courts in patent litigation to twist the claims to limit their scope. Among the many examples of courts finding language …

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China Gets Serious about Intellectual Property

Many people in the West think of China as a copier exploiting the IP of the West and generally ignoring IP rights. In reality, China, the nation where I now live, has made steady and rapid progress in building an IP system and in enforcing and respecting IP rights. Companies are increasingly able to protect …

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Chinnovation: Lessons for the West from China

Yinglan Tan’s new book, Chinnovation: How Chinese Innovators Are Changing the World, offers many lessons for the West. Tan explores several dozen case studies of entrepreneurs from small and large companies with roots in China. Some of the lessons counter popular Western perceptions about business in China and others point to broadly applicable lessons in …

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