That applies especially to Chinese companies, which receive official encouragement to build patent holdings and love to talk about them.īut a patent is merely an acknowledgement of uniqueness, not usefulness: You could file a patent for nailing a pillow to a chair. In reality, raw patent filing numbers are a useless way of measuring the value of a technology. "Trump blocked us but he can't get around our 30%," he told a conference in southern China last weekend.Ī rousing sentiment for a local crowd, but if China's 5G patent holdings really are so potent, why is Beijing not wielding them in response to the Huawei ban? Li Yizhong, a former boss of China's powerful industry and IT ministry, says that with China holding 30% of 5G patents, the country is in a position to challenge the US.
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