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Complying with the patent "foreign filing license" requirement in a cross-border setting: the perspective of China-US
For companies that are operating internationally, it is not uncommon to have R&D facilities in a number of countries, where engineers cooperate with each other across the border to innovate. Meanwhile, many jurisdictions have its own laws on the approval before one can file a patent application in other countries for the home innovations.