Intellectual Property Theft What are the Chinese stealing? How are they stealing it? What can we do about it?

摘要

We began this project by interviewing twelve Fortune 500 Companies. Most of these companies were very reluctant to directly share their experiences with IP theft. From their reactions, however, it was quite evident that all of these companies did have direct experience with some intellectual property (IP) theft issues. One company (referred to as Company X) proved to be very helpful in this study. Two other companies (referred to as Company Y and Z) offered some information. The information that we were able to collect is presented. First, in our paper, we define what IP theft is, and how it occurs. Next we discuss several examples of IP theft and the Chinese government's continuing support of it. Next we look at what some companies are doing to better protect themselves from IP theft. Finally, we look at what impact the U.S. trade tariffs and the trade talks are having, or not having, relative to Chinese IP theft.