This book addresses key issues concerning the maintenance time and development of patents granted by China, as well as the patent maintenance time granted by the United States, Germany, France, Japan and South Korea. Such issues include the capability of technological innovation based on the patent maintenance time; the patent maintenance times in different technological fields granted by China, the United States, Germany, France, Japan and South Korea; the distribution of patented technologies in the energy-saving industry, the patent protection of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the impact on the R&D industry in China, and so on. This book presents theoretical perspectives on technological innovations promoted by the patent system and proposes a number of recommendations to reform the annual fee system of maintaining patents and optimize the patent maintenance time. The materials presented here comprise original and innovative contributions, with a special focus on empirical data and scholarly analysis.

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Research on the Capability of Technological Innovation Based on the Maintenance Time of Patent.- Analysis to Influencing Factors on the Technological Innovation Based on the Patent Maintenance Time.- Comparative Study of the Innovation Ability Based on the Maintenance Status of Domestic Patents and Foreign Patents.- Comparative Study of the Innovation Ability Based on the Maintenance Status of Domestic Patents and Foreign Patents.- Empirical Research on the Maintenance Time of Granted Patents in the Performing Operations and Transporting Technological Field in Six Countries.- Comparative Study of the Renewal Information of Granted Patents in the Physics Technological Field in China, France and Germany.- Cross-national Comparative Study of the Maintenance Time of Granted Patents in the Technical Field of Fixed Constructions in Different Countries.- Empirical Research of the Maintenance Time of Foreign Patents without the Foreign Priority Granted by USA, Korea, Japan and China.- Researchon the Patent Licensing of the New Generation Information Technology Industry in China.- Research on the Technical Fields Distribution of Patents Licensing of Chinese Firms in the Next-Generation Information Technology Industry.- Research on the Granted Patent Distribution of the Energy-saving and Environmental Protection Industry in China.- Research on the Distribution of Patented Technologies of Energy-saving Industry in China.- Research on the Granted Patent Distributions of Significance Firms in the New Energy Automobile Industry in China.- Analysis of the Patent Protection of the Traditional Chinese Medicine and the impact on the industry R&D in China.- Study on the Ownership of Inventions-creations by the Government-funded in China.