Mr. Edward Lehman, a senior international IP lawyer, was invited to be the special expert to comment in the China Patent Documentary program of CGTN.
China, the world’s largest developing country has ever gone a tremendous transformation in the past 70 years. “China will be the leader of innovation” said Edward Lehman.
China ranked 14th in the 2019 global innovation index. innovation and IP have become the main driving force of china ’s economy. In the three and half decades since the issue of its first patent law in 1985, China has built up a mature patent system. The west has been using a patent system for nearly 400 years.
Compared with U.S and E.U, China is relatively young. It has developed from scratch into one of the world’s most advanced patent systems. When you protect IP, you protect innovation. It is a really remarkable journey. Through interviews with Chinese and Western experts, witnesses and practitioners in the field of intellectual property, China Patent tells how China has built up the patent system in 40 years.
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