On February 21, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Chinese authorities, in violation of international law, began to cancel the patents of American companies.
The growing diplomatic conflict between the leadership of the United States and China is reportedly hurting the economic interests of American companies.
Last fall, US President Joe Biden imposed a ban on the transfer of licenses to Chinese technology companies for the production of semiconductors and chips.
These sanctions were literally introduced in order to slow down the technological development of Chinese companies.
According to Western experts, Chinese enterprises have by now completed the development of the 14-nanometer process technology and have begun mass production of chips based on it.
The Chinese company SMIC has been producing these chips since last summer without the use of foreign technologies.
At the same time, other Chinese companies, on the basis of licenses from American companies, produced chips and processors based on Western technologies based on a 5-nanometer process technology.
As planned by Joe Biden, the ban on the transfer of licenses to Chinese companies was supposed to stop the production of modern chips, processors and microcircuits by Chinese factories. However, according to The Wall Street Journal, nothing like this really happened.
Chinese companies have begun to apply to local courts for the annulment of patents issued by US companies. Chinese courts have come to the defense of local businesses and allowed them to use the results of the intellectual property of US companies without paying them a fee.
According to American experts, Chinese companies actually appropriated the achievement of American programmers and undermined the intellectual property market by legalizing piracy at the state level.
At the same time, Chinese courts began to cancel the patents of American companies in other industries, and not just in microelectronics.
In conclusion, I note that the Chinese courts adopted the experience of the Americans themselves, who at the beginning of the 20th century deprived British, German, French companies operating in the American market from patents for inventions.