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Business商业报道Chinese patents中国专利Ever more inventive越来越具创造性Mainland companies are building up their intellectual property内地企业正在建立自己的知识产权CHINAS leaders see patents as rungs on the ladder to becoming an innovation powerhouse.中国的领导人们认为，专利便是通往创新大国那扶梯上的横档。So in five-year plans and through subsidies and official exhortations, they have encouraged locals to file patents.因此，不论是在五年计划里，还是经由种种补贴和官方规诫，他们一直鼓励国人申请专利，And locals have responded with gusto.而国人也对此颇为捧场，Two years ago Chinas patent office became the worlds busiest.两年前，中国专利局一跃成为世界上最繁忙的专利机构。Sceptics have scoffed that most of those filed are utility model patents—short-term ones granted for relatively trivial ideas,怀疑论者对这些专利嗤之以鼻，他们认为，大多数人申请的都是实用新型专利，与正式的发明专利不同，这类短期专利价值不高。as opposed to proper invention patents—and that few Chinese inventors have won patents in countries where standards are higher.而且，对那些专利门槛颇高的国家而言，很少有中国发明人能入其法眼。Many patents, it is also argued, are exercises in quota-filling by academics, with no hope of commercialisation. In short, these patents are a sham.也有另一种说法称，许多专利是学者们纯粹为了定量完成任务而练手的结果，并没有将其商业化的期许。Not quite, argues the UNs World Intellectual Property Organisation.说白了，这些都是伪专利。不过在联合国世界知识产权组织看来，也非尽然如此。A new study scrutinises Chinese patents and concludes that a small but rapidly growing proportion are up to world standards.一项审视中国专利的新研究得出结论，称其占比虽小，但迅速增长的比例已达到世界标准。The WIPO included only patents filed by Chinese residents—that is, those with a Chinese address—who filed their patents first on the mainland.世界知识产权组织仅将中国居民申请的专利列入统计—这包含两个概念：申请人居住在中国，且是在内地首次注册专利。So, inventions by the Shanghai labs of GE or Philips are not included, since Western multinationals typically file first in America or Europe.而由于西方跨国公司通常会先在美国或欧洲申请专利，通用和飞利浦的上海实验室做出的发明便不包括在统计之列。Foxconn, a manufacturing goliath controlled by Hon Hai of Taiwan, is included in the study because,之所以台湾鸿海集团旗下的制造业巨擘富士康包括在此项研究之内是unlike other Taiwanese firms, it resides in China and files its patents first on the mainland.因为和其他台商不同，它的驻地在中国，且是在内地首次注册专利。The findings chall