Olympic Games Expected to Bring Wave of Innovation

As many Chinese people celebrate Beijing's recent winning of the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, they still remember the fanfare and fireworks of the Summer Olympics held in the capital seven years ago.


Experts say the Olympic Games are not only a gala of sports, but also bring about a wave of innovation and intellectual property inventions.


"The development of Winter Olympics products will involve many intellectual properties that are different from the Summer Olympics," said Liu Haibo, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Science. "Many technologies, such as the mobile Internet, big data and artificial intelligence, which were immature in 2008, will be popular in 2022 and become challenges to current IP protection models.


Officials from the Chinese bid committee for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games said China has been well-equipped with IP protection mechanisms that will provide effective protection for Olympics-related intellectual properties.