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  "path": "/story/26/02/17/1550222/china-once-stole-foreign-ideas-now-it-wants-to-protect-its-own?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-17T16:20:37.763Z",
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  "textContent": "China's courts are now handling more than 550,000 intellectual-property cases a year -- making it the world's most litigious country for IP disputes -- as the nation's own companies, once notorious for copying foreign designs and technology, find themselves on the defensive against a domestic counterfeiting epidemic fueled by excess factory capacity. The problem runs from knockoff \"Lafufu\" plush toys (cheap copies of Pop Mart's wildly popular Labubu dolls, which prompted a nationwide crackdown and a Shanghai police bust of a $1.7 million stash in July) to copied motorcycles and solar panels. Judges in Shanghai, the preferred venue for IP litigation, are working through cases at a rate of roughly one per day, and it still takes three months for a case to land on a court's docket. Chinese companies are also increasingly clashing abroad: patent-related cases involving Chinese businesses in America surged 56% in 2023, according to data from GEN, a Chinese law firm. Luckin Coffee and Trina Solar have both filed suits against foreign-based copycats.\n\n \n\nRead more of this story at Slashdot.",
  "title": "China Once Stole Foreign Ideas. Now It Wants To Protect Its Own",
  "updatedAt": "2026-02-17T16:05:00.000Z"
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