Chinese Traditions Inimical to the Patent Law, The Symposium: Doing Business in China

These phenomena remind us of a common view that China\u27s modernization of science and technology is burdened by a number of constraints, primarily constraints in traditional culture and in the Marxist-Leninist one-party state. 5 More specifically, in discussing the patent law of the People\u27s Republic of China (PRO), Beaumont claimed that the two-fold problem in stimulating innovation is a residual mistrust of innovation as a result of years of foreign imperialistic colonization, and of finding ways to encourage and reward innovation which are congruent with Marxist thought. 6 This article asserts that China\u27s traditional culture is probably as inimical to patent law as it is to the modernization of science and technology