Graduation Year
2018
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Legal Studies
Reader 1
Jennifer Groscup
Reader 2
Feng Xiao
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2018 BRIDGET A. PAYNE
Abstract
Germany’s economic dominance in Europe, generous investment incentives, and technical manufacturing prowess has encouraged an influx of Chinese-led inbound activity, concentrated in high-tech sector mergers and acquisitions. A close examination of these M&As yields evidence of systemic Chinese state-financing through both state-owned and private vehicles that likely stems from China’s “Made in China 2025” policy, which hopes to stem capital outflow and to indigenize technological innovation. As Germany braces for what it sees to be continuous attempts by China to take patented German technology through M&As, it worries that Chinese patent law will allow for rampant patent infringement by copycat Chinese entities.
This paper presents an overview of the root causes of China’s heavy economic activity in Germany, as well as an analysis of the legal concerns held by German firms based on a close reading of the Patent Law of the People’s Republic of China and strategic recommendations for German companies hoping to work with or in China.
Recommended Citation
Payne, Bridget Áine, "State-Financed Merger and Acquisition Activity in Germany as a Catalyst for Robust Chinese Patent Law Enforcement" (2018). Scripps Senior Theses. 1171.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1171
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
