Ask HN: How to patent stuff in China? Is it a scam?

[quotz]

If I patent software in the US & EU, I know that those patents wont be patented in China. I also know that US&EU patents are usually treated like 5 min cookbook recipes for Chinese companies that are stealing tech. How do I prevent my tech getting stolen by Chinese companies? If I register a patent there would it actually work?

[whb07]

If you don't patent it, then how will anyone know what exactly it is that you're doing and how? So then how can they copy?

[quotz → whb07]

I like your answer, however, its better to patent it because sooner or later someone else is going to come up with the same thing.

[zoobab]

Alice and the EPC should be enough to make software patents invalid in the US and in the EU.

[quotz → zoobab]

Alice and the EPC?