Assessing the Post-TRIPS Intellectual Property System in China in the Long Term: Adapting to Local Conditions

Abstract

This chapter reports on the more recent changes made to the intellectual property (IP) system in China and considers how the system has adapted to local conditions in the long term. This chapter draws largely on interviews and data collected in 2015. In the decade from roughly 2005–15, not only were a number of legislative changes promulgated, but significant changes were also made to the enforcement framework in China. These changes were mirrored by noteworthy shifts in both the attitude and awareness of IP in wider Chinese society as well as a substantial increase in the number of domestic Chinese rights-holders influencing the operation and effectiveness of the wider IP system. This chapter also considers factors contributing to the current state of the IP system under the same headings as in Chap. 6, namely parameters, fundamental factors and proximate factors, before the wider dynamic process of change is discussed.