The above data reflects the rapid development of China's foreign trade, but at the same time, the news of China enterprises encountering intellectual property disputes in domestic and foreign markets is endless, and intellectual property rights have become an unavoidable focus for China enterprises to participate in international competition. With the development of science and technology, the relationship between intellectual property rights and international trade is increasingly close. Therefore, while vigorously encouraging the development of knowledge and technology-intensive industries, all countries attach great importance to the protection of intellectual property rights of exported goods and technologies. Intellectual property, in the eyes of some enterprises, has become an untouchable forbidden area, while in the eyes of the general public, it has become a monopoly and a "law of the jungle" under modern civilization. But in any case, it is not uncommon for domestic enterprises to suffer both economic and reputation losses due to intellectual property issues, and the alarm of attaching importance to "intellectual property rights" has sounded in our ears.
While China is accelerating its integration into the global economy, the intellectual property crisis has given us a red light. June, 5438+October, 2005 10. Shortly after China's entry into WTO, the international giant Intel sued the voice card produced by a company in China for infringing its patent. Soon after that, Sanyo began a dispute with Shenzhen BYD about battery patent. In February, American Electronic Entertainment Association (ESA) submitted a report from International Intellectual Property Protection Union (IIPA) to American business representatives, pointing out that China, together with Malaysia and Russia, became the three countries with the most serious game software piracy in the world. China has become the largest producer, consumer and exporter of fake and shoddy products in the world. When more and more China enterprises and China products play an important role in the global market, the intellectual property crisis casts a shadow over this globalization process. The intellectual property pressure from the United States, the European Union, Japan, South Korea and other patent powers has set a high threshold for China. By suppressing China enterprises and China products through intellectual property rights, China enterprises have entered a strange circle of internationalization: production-patent restriction of multinational companies-paying huge patent license fees and infringement fees-copying.
The strengthening of international intellectual property protection affects the globalization process of enterprises in China, because China enterprises lack independent intellectual property rights and have to pay huge patent fees, or because the huge costs arising from intellectual property litigation greatly increase the costs of enterprises, significantly reduce the competitiveness of China products in the international market, and affect the foreign direct investment and transnational production of China enterprises. At the micro level, intellectual property barriers reduce the market competitiveness, market share and profit margin of products by paying huge patent royalties and infringement fees, which is the short-term effect of intellectual property rights; In the long run, the reduction of capital accumulation caused by the reduction of corporate profits will lead to insufficient investment in technology research and development, and it will be impossible to fundamentally improve the technology structure and product structure of enterprises, which will inevitably lead to the desperate situation of enterprises in the era of technology as the core competitiveness. At the macro level, the whole related industries will reduce the production and sales of products in a short time because of intellectual property barriers. In the marketing era with the market as its lifeblood, the industry will not be able to resist the industrial shrinkage brought about by the shrinking market. If this situation continues for a long time, the industry will eventually die out in the competition. This has a great influence on the development of national economy, international economic sovereignty and the future position of China's science and technology in the world. Undoubtedly, when the global economy enters the era of industrial restructuring, China enterprises lacking intellectual property rights will not be able to change the unfavorable situation at the end of the industrial chain and downstream of the value chain, and will be subject to people in globalization.