Zoe Bollinger
Feb 2, 2015
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Prisoners in China Can Get Out of Jail in Exchange for Patents
With the addition of a new policy, the Chinese government offers sentence reductions for prisoners who make "important technical innovations," which could be demonstrated by obtaining a patent for an invention. As a result an new cottage industry has emerged where wealthy prisoners can pay small businesses anywhere from $1,000 to $10,000 to have inventors' ideas patented as their own.