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Intellectual Property Rights in China
2018
Overview
Over the past three decades, China has transformed itself from a
stagnant, inward, centrally planned economy into an animated,
outward-looking, decentralized market economy. Its rapid growth and
trade surpluses have caused uneasiness in Western governments,
which perceive this growth to be a result of China's rejection of
international protocols that protect intellectual property and its
widespread theft and replication of Western technology and
products. China's major trading partners, particularly the United
States, persistently criticize China for delivering, at best,
half-hearted enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR)
norms. Despite these criticisms, Zhenqing Zhang argues that China
does respect international intellectual property rights, but only
in certain cases. In Intellectual Property Rights in
China , Zhang addresses the variation in the effectiveness of
China's IPR policy and explains the mechanisms for the uneven
compliance with global IPR norms.
Covering the areas of patent, copyright, and trademark, Zhang
chronicles how Chinese IPR policy has evolved within the legacy of
a planned economy and an immature market mechanism. In this
environment, compliance with IPR norms is the result of balancing
two factors: the need for short-term economic gains that depend on
violating others' IPR and the aspirations for long-term sustained
growth that requires respecting others' IPR. In case studies
grounded in theoretical analysis as well as interviews and
fieldwork, Zhang demonstrates how advocates for IPR, typically
cutting-edge Chinese companies and foreign IPR holders, can be
strong enough to persuade government officials to comply with IPR
norms to achieve the country's long-term economic development
goals. Conversely, he reveals the ways in which local governments
protect IPR infringers because of their own political interests in
raising tax revenues and creating jobs.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc
Subject
ISBN
9780812251067, 0812251067
