News China beat the U.S. in generative AI patents by 6-to-1 for the past ten years — almost 10,000 Chinese patents filed last year alone

[Admin]

China has more patents than the six top nations in generative AI research.

China beat the U.S. in generative AI patents by 6-to-1 for the past ten years — almost 10,000 Chinese patents filed last year alone : Read more

 

[The Historical Fidelity]

This is disingenuous at best, time and time again, these articles come out touting how China is producing volumes of patents, yet fail to recognize the lack of utility of said patents. The Chinese patent system is abused regularly by taking advantage of the “good faith” clause within patent law over the past decades.

Patents in China: Developments in 2024 and What’s to Come

Patent law and practice in China commenced a significant adjustment at the outset of 2024. China’s State Council released its latest revision of the Implementing Regulations of the Patent Law in December 2023, and at the same time, the CNIPA released its comprehensive revision of the Patent...

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“One Chinese patent expert stated rather bluntly that only 10 percent of China’s patents have market value and that probably 90 percent of them are “trash.””

“Instead of being innovation-driven, most of China’s patent applications are driven by other motives, such as seeking government subsidy or job promotion, reputation building for individuals or universities and institutions, or acquiring certification as national high-tech enterprises.”

“Furthermore, except for invention patent, the other two types of patents in China (utility model and industrial design patents) are not calculated in the scope of “patent” at WIPO and in most countries. The high percentage of China’s filings and grants in these two kinds of patents did not add too much credit to China. Between 1985 and 2020, 81–89 percent of the patents granted in China belonged to utility model and industrial design, and only 11–19 percent of the granted domestic patents belong to invention patents, which is the key indicator to evaluate the level of science and innovation in a country. Most of the patents of utility model and design are of low quality and essentially useless.”

What Do China’s High Patent Numbers Really Mean?

Instead of being innovation-driven, most of China’s patent applications are driven by government subsidy, job promotion or reputation building.

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[Li Ken-un]

There’s also an unspoken truth: a large number of American academic papers are written with contributions by academics with Chinese roots. I say this, because it’s often apparent from the names of the authors, with some false positives from names which are actually Korean or Vietnamese. There isn’t a direct way to discern American citizenship*, but it’s pretty obvious that total disengagement with Chinese academic counterparts would be equivalent to a brain drain for American institutions.

(* Their citizenship/American-born status is a different discussion. Their treatment wavers between “perpetual outsider” status and “yeah the good ones are batting for our team” depending on which outcome of mental gymnastics is most convenient.)

 

[The Historical Fidelity]

There’s also an unspoken truth: a large number of American academic papers are written with contributions by academics with Chinese roots. I say this, because it’s often apparent from the names of the authors, with some false positives from names which are actually Korean or Vietnamese. There isn’t a direct way to discern American citizenship*, but it’s pretty obvious that total disengagement with Chinese academic counterparts would be equivalent to a brain drain for American institutions.

(* Their citizenship/American-born status is a different discussion. Their treatment wavers between “perpetual outsider” status and “yeah the good ones are batting for our team” depending on which outcome of mental gymnastics is most convenient.)

America is a melting pot of all peoples who appreciate the principles that America was founded upon. Does not matter which country they or their ancestors came from, they are Americans.

 

[nookoool]

This is disingenuous at best, time and time again, these articles come out touting how China is producing volumes of patents, yet fail to recognize the lack of utility of said patents. The Chinese patent system is abused regularly by taking advantage of the “good faith” clause within patent law over the past decades.

Patents in China: Developments in 2024 and What’s to Come

Patent law and practice in China commenced a significant adjustment at the outset of 2024. China’s State Council released its latest revision of the Implementing Regulations of the Patent Law in December 2023, and at the same time, the CNIPA released its comprehensive revision of the Patent...

ipwatchdog.com

“One Chinese patent expert stated rather bluntly that only 10 percent of China’s patents have market value and that probably 90 percent of them are “trash.””

“Instead of being innovation-driven, most of China’s patent applications are driven by other motives, such as seeking government subsidy or job promotion, reputation building for individuals or universities and institutions, or acquiring certification as national high-tech enterprises.”

“Furthermore, except for invention patent, the other two types of patents in China (utility model and industrial design patents) are not calculated in the scope of “patent” at WIPO and in most countries. The high percentage of China’s filings and grants in these two kinds of patents did not add too much credit to China. Between 1985 and 2020, 81–89 percent of the patents granted in China belonged to utility model and industrial design, and only 11–19 percent of the granted domestic patents belong to invention patents, which is the key indicator to evaluate the level of science and innovation in a country. Most of the patents of utility model and design are of low quality and essentially useless.”

What Do China’s High Patent Numbers Really Mean?

Instead of being innovation-driven, most of China’s patent applications are driven by government subsidy, job promotion or reputation building.

www.cigionline.org

Wasn't "one-click" shopping consider a thrash patent before it wasn't a thrash patent? My understanding is that people also shotgun 1000s of random patents in the US as well with "no utility" until one day it suddenly do have utility.

 

[The Historical Fidelity]

Wasn't "one-click" shopping consider a thrash patent before it wasn't a thrash patent? My understanding is that people also shotgun 1000s of random patents in the US as well with "no utility" until one day it suddenly do have utility.

Not really, The USPTO is very stringent with their acceptance criteria. There is no “good faith” clause to abuse.