中國申請高速鐵路專利權

Recently the NHK News reported the following:
中国鉄道省は、海外からの技術供与を受けて開発し、製造している高速鉄道の車両について、特許の申請手続きを日本やヨーロッパなどで進めていることを明らかにしました。
中国政府系の英字紙「チャイナ・デーリー」が、中国鉄道省の高官の話として伝えたところによりますと、中国政府は、高速鉄道の車両に関する技術の特許の申請手続きを、日本やアメリカ、ブラジル、ヨーロッパ、そしてロシアで進めているとしています。特許を申請しているのは、高速列車の車両の、▽台車や、▽外側の形などで、国際的な特許出願制度「特許協力条約」に従って、２１件の特許を申請し、このうち８件はすでに予備段階での審査を通過したということです。しかし、中国の高速鉄道の車両は、日本やドイツ、フランス、そしてカナダの４か国の企業から技術供与を受けて開発、製造されており、今後、これらの企業との間で特許を巡って紛争が起こる可能性も指摘されています。これに対し、中国政府は「各国からの技術を吸収し、改良を重ねたものだ」として、あくまで中国独自の技術であると主張しており、海外で特許を取得することで、今後、アメリカやブラジルなどへの高速鉄道の輸出競争で、優位に立ちたいねらいがあるものとみられます。
(試譯文)
It was clarified that the Chinese railway ministry was applying for patents on the technologies which they had developed after receiving them from foreign countries; and the procedure to apply for patents in the manufacturing of vehicles used in the rapid-transit railway was in progress in Japan and Europe, etc.
Based on an English-Language governmental newspaper the "China Daily" in China, according to a story told by the senior officials in the Chinese railway ministry, the Chinese government had initiated the application procedure to get patents on the technologies concerning the vehicle used in the rapid-transit railway in countries such as Japan, the United States, Brazil, Europe, and Russia. Their application was to apply for 21 patents in the carriage body of the high-speed train and the outside shape, etc. , applying according to the international patent application system: the "Patent Cooperation Treaty"; among these, they had already passed eight patients examinations in the preparatory phase. However, because these vehicles for use in the rapid-transit railway was developed and manufactured by China using licensed technologies from the enterprises of four countries in Japan, Germany, France, and Canada, it was pointed out that there was the possibility that disputes could happen with these enterprises over the patents in the future. The Chinese government was insisting to the end saying that "It is a technology that was absorbed from other countries, and then improvements are added repeatedly" and that the technology was of Chinese origin. It was expected that when the patents were obtained in foreign countries, they would post export competition to countries such as the United States and Brazil in the rapid-transit railway, and there was the aim for China to get a dominating position in the future.

When China has mastered the technology, competition would be inevitable.