Scientists Urged to Patent Their InventionsChinese scientists should make better use of patents to protect their inventions worldwide, according to Guangming Daily, a national newspaper targeted at intellectuals.Scientists in China turn out over 30,000 items of scientific achievements at the state-level each year, but they only apply patent for some 10,000 of them. Incomplete statistics show that China has given away free to other parts of the world more than 110,000 items of inventions over the past decade. The losses of high technologies due to lack of patent protection have been enormous, the newspaper said, urging Chinese inventors to be fully aware of the patent laws of China and other parts of the world. It is universally accepted that inventions are protected only when they have applied for and been granted patents in a given jurisdiction. They are not protected in other jurisdictions unless they have applied for and been granted patents there. By the end of 1998, China had received over 115,900 patent applications from domestic inventors, while only 3,000 Chinese inventions applied for patent protection in other parts of the world, the paper said. |
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