How to protect the interests of R&D companies?
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There doesn’t seem to be a suitable section in the forum, so I’m posting it here! ! We Chinese basically have no concept of intellectual property, I think everyone agrees on that! I have been thinking about this issue recently: without appropriate intellectual property protection, our **technology cannot achieve long-term development and improvement. (I’m not sure if everyone agrees). The projects developed by each research institute are generally presented as complete sets of technology transfers, after which other companies can replicate them without any restrictions. This should be a fatal blow to R&D companies. There is no additional funding for further research and development, nor more money to train and retain R&D personnel. The concept of intellectual property in the West does not seem to be entirely applicable to China at present. So what appropriate methods or policies can we use to protect the interests of companies engaged in research and development? Share your opinion, thank you! !
It’s an objective fact; therefore, there are fewer and fewer technicians who are willing to sit back and endure loneliness, to accept poverty. I believe that the public in our country still has a very weak awareness of intellectual property rights, even though we do have laws regarding intellectual property. Foreigners will go to court to protect their intellectual property rights. The following are my personal opinions for reference only. In recent years, China’s economy has developed rapidly; as a result, chemical processing plants of all sizes have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. Yet how many of these plants rely on their own technology, or on technology introduced through normal channels? As I have seen, some technicians secretly sell their techniques for personal gain, while others use their skills to open their own factories. (The above are individual actions and should not be judged); even worse, some of our enterprises and R&D and design units do the same thing. I have seen foreign design drawings being copied and sold by design institutes, I have seen technologies introduced being replicated by the companies that adopted them without seeking permission from the owners of those technologies. I have also seen our researchers make certain innovations to such introduced technologies; after filing several patents, they would dare to sell them, claiming that through innovations based on those technologies, they had developed their own independent intellectual property. And I think this is innovation in just certain aspects, not across the board. And not many people can afford to go to court; many technology providers charge very high fees up front, and it’s understandable to leave things as they are after that. This is a common problem that exists in both enterprises and research institutes. I think this is just a stage in economic development; once it reaches a certain level, this phenomenon will naturally decrease. A few inappropriate examples: fabricating fakes first and then pretending to fight against them; the fake goods from Wenzhou – what happens once enough capital has been accumulated? People in Wenzhou are paying more and more attention to brands. Pollute first and then deal with the pollution – this is a practice seen in many places where industrial development is encouraged while pollution is ignored, and only once those regions become more powerful is effort put into addressing pollution. Therefore, once the economy develops to a certain level, people’s awareness of intellectual property rights will increase, consciously or unconsciously, and the phenomena mentioned by LZ will become less and less common