US Patent law: the Digital Trade war

Customs duties on steel are from yesterday: in the future, states and companies worldwide will be arguing about technologies and patents. China in particular is heating up the conflict.

US Patent law: the Digital Trade war
Content
  • Page 1 — digital trade war
  • Page 2 — China also invests billions in Europe
  • Read on a page

    Friday coming week it will be serious: n vonPräsident Trump imposed punitive duties on imported steel and aluminum Kraft. At weekend, federal minister of Finance Peter Altmaier (CDU) travelled to Washington to keep US government from introducing it in short term.

    The duties on raw materials such as steel are a sideshow. In future, Diehärtesten economic disputes will not revolve around goods such as washing machines, motorcycles, jeans or whiskey, but rar retechnology and patent and trademark protection. For decades, government in Washington has been urging companies to protect ir patents, trademarks, copyrights, licenses and designs worldwide, for example by not attracting foreign investors. Meanwhile, about DerUS Congress is planning stricter rules for company takeovers. Germany and EUkönnten are taking similar protectionist measures. This could lead to an increasing foreclosure of markets in Endezu.

    Qualcomm versus Broadcom

    JüngstesBeispiel is clash between Qualcomm and Broadcom. In early inexpensive inter, U.S. President Donald Trump said takeover of US ChipherstellersQualcomm by foreign competitor. He blocked DenVerkauf by referring to a threat to national security. MIT117 billion it would have been biggest tech takeover of history. Broadcom was willing to spend so much money on Qualcomm, as Unternehmengilt is leader in development of next wireless standard 5g.

    Nochvor Trump's arrangement had already rejected Committee on Foreign Investment in TheUS (CFIUS) Broadcom's plan. The Authority is responsible for monitoring VonAuslandsinvestitionen and presented an interesting justification: Singapore, company's headquarters of Broadcom, was less of a problem. CFIUS doubted, in particular, that Broadcom would invest enough in research and development to assert itself against Chinese RivalenHuaweiTechnologies.

    Qualcommselbst had turned to CFIUS to fend off unwanted purchase offer. The small and barely-known Washington supervisory Authority, which consists of 16Juristen and Finance Minister Steven Mnuchin, has already pronounced EineReihe of prominent takeover bans. In January, CFIUS rejected Etwaeinen's request from Ant Financial, a financial company of JackMa, founder of Chinese online company Alibaba. Ant wanted to buy DieÜberweisungsfirma MoneyGram. But CFIUS inspectors did not want to give Chinese an insight into data of millions of Americans. In February, CFIUS said takeover of chip plant manufacturer Xcerra by Chinese. And it doesn't just meet Chinese buyers. For reasons of NationalenSicherheit, CFIUS last year of Munich-based Infineon said that it was chief specialist Wolfspeed. And also German company Biotestkam CFIUS in cross. The US wardens forced HessischenArzneimittelhersteller to sell US daughters. Only n could biotest, a manufacturer of blood plasma products, be Creatverkauft to Chinese investor.

    China wants to occupy key technologies

    China is particularly focused, after all, Beijing has objective to make China world market leader InSchlüsseltechnologien by 2025 – if necessary by ft, as westlicheWirtschaftsvertreter and politicians fear. The current dispute reclassic trade barriers such as customs overshadowed global dispute umTechnologiehoheit. China is well positioned for this. With support of DerRegierung, Chinese investors have necessary capital to make a product in mass production from a Ideeinnerhalb of only a short time. Dashat beginning of Nullerjahre solar industry showed. Beijing had specifically lured Chinese scholars from abroad back home, says Mary Lovely, a commercial expert at conservative Thinktank PetersonInstitute in Washington. They received not only financial resources, but also denZugang to resources such as laboratories. Thus, Chinese start-ups in nurwenigen years managed to roll out market for solar technology. In 2001, DerMarktanteil of Chinese on solar cell market was only one percent. 2012dominierten it with a share of 65 percent.

    Date Of Update: 20 March 2018, 12:03
    NEXT NEWS