☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months agoChina filed 25% more patents than the U.S. in 2023 — heavily sanctioned Huawei led all companies worldwide despite banswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up179arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up179arrow-down1external-linkChina filed 25% more patents than the U.S. in 2023 — heavily sanctioned Huawei led all companies worldwide despite banswww.tomshardware.com☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square33fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·8 months agoI mean if we lived in a post capitalist world, yeah I’d love to see the concept of patents abolished. But in the world as it is today, they are an indirect measure of technological development.
minus-squaremuslimmarxist [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months ago they are an indirect measure of technological development. I don’t even believe this is true. There is plenty of literature out there about how # of patents =/= innovation (or even tangentially relate to it).
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoSeems to be in line with the fact that China now tops U.S. in quantity and quality of scientific papers https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Science/China-tops-U.S.-in-quantity-and-quality-of-scientific-papers
I mean if we lived in a post capitalist world, yeah I’d love to see the concept of patents abolished. But in the world as it is today, they are an indirect measure of technological development.
Useful for a measure, not a quota.
I don’t even believe this is true. There is plenty of literature out there about how # of patents =/= innovation (or even tangentially relate to it).
Seems to be in line with the fact that China now tops U.S. in quantity and quality of scientific papers https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Science/China-tops-U.S.-in-quantity-and-quality-of-scientific-papers