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To: andyahoo
Notice according to World Bank, China earn 4.74 in innovative index while India only earn 3.72 in 2005. And th gap widen compare to 1995.
Haier has patents that are useless in a global cntext and probably useless even in a Chinese context. For example they have a patent for a washing machine that can also wash sweet potatoes. Very useful. A lot of patents filed in China ae similar. In IBM and in the company I worked for, Chinese on an average filed 1/30th the number of patents that Indians filed. Granted that IBM is bigger in India than in China. But in my company, we had 20 Indians working in India compared with 300 Chinese working in Beijing and Shanghai. Indians filed for 24 patents in the company's APac region and Chinese for 2.

I filed a patent in China, so I know of the law there. In China, irrespective of whether the filer is Chinese or a foreigner(citizenship-wise), he cannot file a patent abroad if he is a resident in China.
Many Indian firms file patents directly in the US as it saves costs of multiple filings. This law also has a lot to do with fewer patents filed in India than in China. That explains a the disparity doesn't it? It has nothing to do with the relative creativity of Indians compare with Chinese. There wouldn't be such a myth otherwise.
15 posted on 08/22/2006 6:13:39 PM PDT by MimirsWell (Pakistaneo delenda est.)
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To: MimirsWell

Lol, any statistics that shows China in the upper hand you call it is useless, then why the hell all comparison? Everytime I showed you statistics, you will say that is useless because it makes India looks bad.

The fact that China beats India in innovative index shows China is a better place to develop innovations.






17 posted on 08/22/2006 6:47:43 PM PDT by andyahoo
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