during the recent agchem asia summit held in shanghai, zhang weibo, vice minister of the chemical inventions inspection department, the patent office of the state intellectual property bureau, said from 2011 to 2015, 46 types of foreign patented pesticides will expire, which is good news for domestic pesticide enterprises.
according to zhang weibo, the 46 patented pesticides that will expire include 14 insecticides, 16 fungicides, 15 phytocides, and one antidote. the expiration of the 46 pesticides provides a large opportunity for the chinese pesticide industry. domestic pesticide enterprises can break a road by the process of learning, imitating and innovating.
