Protecting intellectual property encourages development and sharing of new ideas and is a critical component of our economy.
Problem:
How do we allow for the open sharing of breakthrough ideas and innovations like Pinying while also protecting an inventor’s rights?
我们怎样才能在允许公开分享像“拼英”这样的突破性理念和创新的同时又能保护发明者的权益呢？
Solution:
Patents grant a time-limited monopoly, allowing others to learn, grow, and improve an invention, while also ensuring the original creator is recognized, attributed and rewarded.
专利权给予了一定时限内的垄断来学习、发展并改进一项发明，同时保证最初的发明者被认可并得到回报。
Problem:
怎样才能保证消费者所购买商品的渠道和质量？开发商又怎样才能使他们的产品区别与其他商品呢？我们怎样才能激发个人创造出新的艺术作品并与全社会分享呢？
How are consumers assured of the source and quality of the goods they are purchasing, and how do businesses differentiate their products from others? How do we motivate individuals to create new artistic works and share them with society?
Solution:
注册商标增强了消费者对所使用商品的信心，构建了品牌价值并通过鼓励竞争促进了全球经济的增长。版权通过阻止在未经所有者允许的情况下的翻版来激励并保护著作权。
Trademarks ™ strengthen consumer confidence in the products they use, build brand value, and create global economic growth by encouraging competition. Copyrights © incentivize and protect authorship by preventing the original work from being reproduced without permission from the owner.
Problem:
How do we identify and protect the knowledge and experience surrounding an invention, which co-exists with and provides support to the other aspects of intellectual property?
围绕一项发明而产生的知识和经验相互依存，并对其他知识产权提供支持，我们如何来识别并保护这些知识和经验呢？
Solution:
Know-how is the least tangible type of intellectual property and includes information related to traditions, relationships, and experiences. Without it, inventions and their applications are less effective and would face greater barriers to adoption.
原理性技术是知识产权中最为无形的部分，包括了与传统、联系、经验相关的所有信息。没有原理性技术，发明和应用就会变得低效并在应用层面上面临更大的障碍。
Light bulb, Telephone, and Toilet Paper Roll Patent Documents
Light bulb patent application. By Thomas Edison (reprinted by the Norris Peters Co.) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Light_bulb_Edison_2.jpg
Alexander Graham Bell's Telephone Patent Drawing. By Alexander Graham Bell [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TelephonePatentDrawingBell.jpg
'Toilet Paper Roll' U.S. patent illustration (for a roll of perforated toilet paper). By Seth Wheeler [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toilet-paper-roll-patent-US46558...
