The IBM and Google led non-profit “OpenPOWER Foundation“ may be skirting technology-transfer restrictions to assist Chinese censors to surveil 200 million people.
With Western companies using patents to protect their intellectual property and set technical standards, China’s State Council launched an initiative in 2006 to influence international technology standards to “make market space for Chinese innovations.” Leveraging its 1989 Technology Standardization Law as the “sole legal basis for China’s standardization system,” foreign firms seeking to do business in China must “proactively disclose any patents which may be infringed by the proposed standard.”
