Patent boom: The cost of doing business

China has surpassed the US to be the number one patent filer in the world and its domestic companies are now filing more patents than their foreign rivals. But what effect has this had on foreign businesses and what patent strategy should they adopt to survive in this increasingly crowded market?

9 minute readMarch 11, 2013 at 04:30 AM

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In 2011, China filed 526,000 invention patent applications. For the first time, the country surpassed the US and became the world's leading patent filer. Figures for last year have not

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