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A Chinese worker checks an electronic board for a communications computer behind a line-up of electronic boards at the factory of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, in the southern Chinese city of Dongguan in this November 23, 2002. (Kin Cheung/Reuters)
China has seized the global patent crown. More new inventions were filed in the country than anywhere else in the world in 2011 – the first time it has surpassed both the United States and Japan in the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s (WIPO) rankings. Though mass-manufacturing of patents merits skepticism, it could also produce some good ideas.
