With patents on the new technology used in manufacturing, China would control the intellectual property and licensing on the products that would be used all over the world.
Once established, they say, they will push China into integrating its intellectual-property regime with international standards.
What is more, as Mr Anderson points out, China is more open to imports and foreign direct investment than South Korea, which helps China's quest for intellectual property.
By contrast, China has developed a National Intellectual Property Strategy, aggressively targeting 2 million Chinese patent applications annually by 2015, spurring initiative and innovation with cash rewards, houses and tax breaks.
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This is really rather amusing: Apple is being sued for intellectual property piracy in China.
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Given continued concerns about the strength of intellectual property enforcement in China, do these patents represent significant technological breakthroughs?
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Whye Mun Chan has had to deal with many firms concerned about intellectual property theft in China and the wider region.
And it's no surprise to hear lunch conversations focused on intellectual property challenges in China and supply chain strategies for Sub-Saharan Africa.
And one Chinese official, the minister of commerce, one time he gave an estimate of about 500, 000 people involved in intellectual property enforcement in China.
Is China known for its recognition of intellectual property rights?
After all, the government says it wants China to become a net exporter of intellectual property.
China, for instance, passed new laws on intellectual property in July.
Second, smaller foreign investors began to pull back as they realized that manufacturing in China substantially increased the risk of loss of their intellectual property.
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After joining the WTO in late 2001, China set up a nationwide court system for dealing with intellectual property right issues.
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Others say that navigating potential pitfalls, like protecting intellectual property, can also be a challenge in China.
And, finally, the protection of intellectual property rights has improved significantly, and that should help local entrepreneurs and foreign entities set up shop in China without the fear that they are days away from having their intellectual property ripped off.
We reached him in Beijing and Mark Cohen told us China cannot become the economic superpower it aims to be without safeguards for intellectual property rights.
In other news, Apple, the US electronics giant, appeared in court in Shanghai yesterday accused by a local firm of violating intellectual property rights in its software used on Siri, China Daily reports.
China has removed discriminatory procurement policies and it has agreed to strengthen enforcement of intellectual property rights in a number of very important ways.
Can we expect intellectual property to be so different from some of the other legal challenges that China faces?
Instead, the talks will focus primarily on longer-term issues, such as tourism, energy and the environment, intellectual property rights and reducing the U.S.' trade deficit with China.
Only exports most affected by the China-ASEAN pact are to be freed on signature in June, and agreements on intellectual-property rights and investment-protection are to be negotiated.
As the U.S.-China economic relationship has deepened over the years, the bilateral flows of capital, equipment and intellectual property, originally quite one-sided, have begun the long shift back to balance.
So part of what we've been trying to do is to make sure that we're getting the enforcement side of this tight, make sure that if we've got a trade agreement with China or other countries, that they are abiding with it -- they're not stealing our intellectual property or making sure that their non-tariff barriers are lowered even as ours are opened up.
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The amusement comes not from it being to do with Apple, but rather that someone in China, against all too much of prevailing local practice, seems to think that the law should in fact protect intellectual property.
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