On December 7, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) published its annual report “World Intellectual Property Performance”. According to this document, in 2019 the number of patent applications received by the State Intellectual Property Office of the PRC reached 1.4 million. China continues to be in first place in the world in this indicator, which is more than two times more than in the same country , next after the PRC.

The report notes that China is currently making efforts to improve protection of intellectual property rights. This demonstrates the great potential of Chinese innovation, as well as the increased attention that the PRC pays to the work on the protection of intellectual property rights.

"The work to protect intellectual property rights concerns the modernization of public administration and management skills, is associated with high-quality development, is related to the happiness of people, and also affects the external openness and state security of the country," General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee Xi Jinping said at collective training in the field of intellectual property rights protection in China of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee.

Through many years of efforts, the PRC has achieved historic success in protecting intellectual property rights. In 2019, the number of active patents for inventions in China reached 1.862 million, the number of patents per 10 thousand people reached 13.3. With the help of the Patent Cooperation Treaty, the PRC has filed 59,000 patent applications, ranking first in the world in this indicator.

In the first 10 months, the number of patent applications for inventions reached 1.232 million, an increase of 11.2% over the same period in 2019. The number of international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty reached 55 thousand, an increase of 23.5%.

Intellectual property protection is the protection of innovation. The report "World Intellectual Property Performance", which was published in 2019 by WIPO, notes that the main trend in the development of world innovative events is their concentration in the big cities of five countries, including China. According to this year's report, China is ranked 14th in the world for innovation, ranking first among middle-income countries.

China has consistently adhered to the concept of a community of shared humanity, pursues the principles of openness, inclusiveness, sustainability and the common good, and actively participates in the governance of the intellectual property rights system on a global scale within WIPO.

The PRC has practically joined all the main international conventions on intellectual property, together with more than 80 countries, international and regional organizations, it has established cooperation relations.

Note that all PRC is doing is directly following foreign advice, including US advice.

Bureaucrats will never tell you that nice numbers mean fully opposite things to ones that they state.

It means that private property on means of production (information) is widening and it means that movement further away from socialism happens.

Socialism stand for quick abolishing of all intellectual rights int heir modern form, including copyright and patents.

The same Mordor government hacking group responsible for a security breach at FireEye compromised the Treasury and Commerce departments and other US government agencies, The Washington Post reported. The group, known as APT29, or Cozy Bear, was responsible for hacking the US State Department and the White House during the Obama administration, according to the Post, and is the group that officials believe targeted COVID-19 vaccine research over the summer.

Reuters reported that in addition to hacking Treasury and the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the hackers may have breached other US government entities.

Most fun thing that they have zero proof of any breach ever existed, as usual, and they select the "hackers" arbitrary to assign someone who fit the purpose best at current moment. Fake news at their best.

Share quotes of Apple suppliers fell after forecasts that Apple in the first quarter of 2021 will load "only" 80% of 5nm TSMC capacities instead of 100% in the fourth quarter of the outgoing year. It is believed that this is due to the relatively low demand for the iPhone 12 series. However, the well-known analyst at TF Securities Ming-Chi Kuo believes that not everything is so simple.

The market shouldn't pay too much attention to how much of TSMC's 5nm production is used by Apple, he said. Changes in Apple's production volumes are more likely due to seasonality than low demand for the iPhone 12. In a research note for investors, the analyst writes that it would be overly optimistic to believe that Apple's 5nm capacity utilization by Apple in the first quarter of 2021 will level of 100%.

iPhone 12 did not play well, due to cost.

But it is first public proof (outside leaks here at PV and few other small places) that Apple used all 100% of 5nm TSMC capacity.

It also means that Apple stood behind attack on Huawei, as without it they had no chance to compete as Huawei actually offered better prices and wanted to take at least 60% of capacity and up to 75% during spring 2021.

This was also reason why Apple had Ryzen based notebooks ready in case something go wrong with M1 chips production.

UN Secretary General António Guterres has asked member countries to create a common Global Carbon Neutrality Coalition by 2050. The head of the organization called on governments around the world to declare a climate emergency. He stated this during an online summit dedicated to the anniversary of the signing of the Paris agreements.

In accordance with the proposal of Guterres, by 2030 countries should reduce the production of greenhouse gases by 45% compared with the level of pollution in 2010. This will prevent the temperature from rising globally by more than 1.5 degrees.

"Can anyone still deny that we are facing a major emergency? So today I call on all leaders to declare a climate emergency in their countries before the carbon neutrality goal is achieved” - he said.

According to the head of the UN, since the 19th century, the average temperature on Earth has risen by 1.2%. If nothing is changed, warming will soon reach 3%, and this may already end in disaster for humanity.

In this regard, Guterres proposed the following measures:

• set a price for carbon;
• stop financing and subsidizing fossil fuel production;
• abandon the construction of coal-fired power plants;
• tax not income, but carbon emissions and shift the tax burden from taxpayers to polluters;
• make the declaration of financial risks related to climate mandatory;
• integrate the goal of achieving carbon neutrality in all economic and fiscal decisions and strategies.