This is part two of a podcast interview with China Law Blog’s own Steve Dickinson on the Technomic Asia blog. To hear that interview, conducted Kent Kedl of Technomic Asia’s Shanghai office, go here. The topic today is on a topic near and dear to my heart: the increasing role of business lawyers in China…. Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: August 2007
China Patents: More, More, More, How Do You Like It?
Posted in Legal NewsI did a short post the other day, based on a Wall Street Journal column, briefly discussing the pros and cons and the costs of securing China patents. China Hearsay did an excellent follow-up post on my post and the article, entitled, “Another IP Pet Peeve.” The Wall Street Journal talked a lot about the… Continue Reading
China’s New Anti-monopoly Law: What Is it Good For?
Posted in Legal NewsAbsolutely nothing. At least to me. At least so far. I spent the early years of my legal career practicing antitrust law and I still enjoying trying to stay current, but this has, if anything, made me quite circumspect regarding China’s new anti-monopoly law. The big question is how this new law will impact foreign… Continue Reading
Steve Dickinson On The State Of China Law, Pt. 1: The Law Itself
Posted in Legal NewsTechnomic Asia’s Chinese Business Podcast interviewed CLB’s own Steve Dickinson the other day and we now have a transcript of that interview. Click here to go to Technomic Asia if you want to listen, rather than read. It is rather long, so we will be breaking it out into parts, based mostly on the subject… Continue Reading
China’s Upper Crust Ain’t Subprime No More
Posted in China BusinessToday’s FT has an article by Rapheal Minder entitled, “Increased appetite for borrowing in China.” The article is chock full of interesting China statistics culled from a soon to be released McKinsey survey. I will leave it to the marketers to make sense of the numbers, but they must have significance. Here goes: – “31… Continue Reading
Beijing Promises Airport Nirvana
Posted in China TravelArticle in today’s People’s Daily says Beijing’s Capital International Airport will, from today on, “spend no more than 3 minutes [on each passenger] going through customs and less than 10 minutes waiting for a security check:” Those are just two of the promises made jointly by airport companies, airlines and government departments at a meeting… Continue Reading
Korea, Fake Degrees, Confucius, Due Diligence, And China Too
Posted in China BusinessBig scandal going on in Korea right now where many leading public figures are being forced to come clean for having lied about their degrees. Korea Law Blog just did a post, entitled, “More on the Fake Degree Scandal,” explaining why this is happening and what employers should be doing about it. Just substitute Chinese… Continue Reading
The China Patent Shuffle
Posted in Legal NewsKelly Spors, the Wall Street Journal’s spot on Q&A columnist on entrepreneurship and small business answered a question today [subscription may be required] on securing a China patent. The question asked of Ms. Spors by a U.S. patent holder is whether it is “worth spending the money for a patent in China to prevent knockoffs… Continue Reading
Yahoo Says Just Following Lawful China Orders, Sir
Posted in Legal NewsA loyal reader just sent me a copy of a motion to dismiss filed yesterday in Oakland, California, Federal Court. To see it in pdf format, click here. The brief was so long that to be able to upload it onto the blog, I had to delete the first ten pages, consisting mostly of its… Continue Reading
Free China IP Seminar: Kansas City, September 19-20, 2007
Posted in EventsThe United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is putting on another in its series of free seminars on China intellectual property. The seminar is entitled, “Conference on Protecting Your Intellectual Property in China and the Global Marketplace” and it will take place on September 19 and 20, from 8:00am until 5:30pm, at the Hyatt… Continue Reading
China Is Choking On Growth
Posted in Recommended ReadingI am tired of reading about China’s environment, mostly because the articles on it have become so repetitive. They all but scream as having been written as a knee-jerk response to an editor’s calling for “another China feature story for this week.” So until now, I had studiously avoided reading the oft-cited (see here, here,… Continue Reading
China Needs Innovation. But We All Knew That
Posted in China BusinessThe Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) just came out with a report in collaboration with China’s Ministry of Science and Technology on the state of China’s economy. According to an AP wire story, The report says that “despite its sizzling economic growth, the country [China] relies mainly on low-tech industries staffed mostly by… Continue Reading
China’s Minimum Registered Capital: How Low Can You Go?
Posted in Legal NewsExcellent post over at the Briefing Blog on a topic that makes my blood boil. Forming a company in China. It makes my blood boil because, quite frankly, there are a number of consultants out there who are essentially lying to their clients about what it takes to form a company in China. They make… Continue Reading
On The Joys Of China Factory Work
Posted in China BusinessExcellent post over at the just discovered (by me anyway) excellent blog, Shanghai Scrap. The post is aptly entitled, “Shandong to Dead Workers: Blame Yourselves,” and it details a recent explosion at a Shandong aluminum plant that killed nine and injured 64. Shandong province’s “safety watchdog” blames worker negligence. Shanghai Scrap makes the following point,… Continue Reading
U.S. in 1887=China in 2007: It’s All Deadwood To Me
Posted in China BusinessOne of the things I am always saying is that most of what is going on in China today is not distinctively or inherently “Chinese.” It very much reminds me of what went on in Russia after the fall of communism there and in Korea in the 1980s and (from what I hear, Japan in… Continue Reading
Chinese Government Moving Into Product Design Business?
Posted in Legal NewsKen Ross, a well known product safety lawyer out of Minneapolis, wrote me yesterday regarding a U.S. client of his that had contacted him regarding a new Chinese government product safety initiative. Ross’s client has a Shenzhen factory making small appliances for sale in the U.S., similar to product that was recently recalled in the… Continue Reading
China’s Uncertain Tax Positions
Posted in Legal NewsDonald Compton of Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP just had published a nice introduction to some of the tax issues likely to confront multinational companies doing business in China. The article is entitled, “China: Determining Uncertain Tax Positions In China,” [free subscription may be required] and its focus is on what such companies need to do to… Continue Reading
US Consumers Changing China?
Posted in China BusinessInteresting and thought provoking article in the LA Times the other day by Nathan Gardels, editor in chief of New Perspectives Quarterly (a/k/a NPQ). Gardels’ article is entitled, “China’s new revolutionaries: U.S. consumers. Beijing must yield to market forces demanding the rule of law and an end to corruption.” Grossly simplified, its thesis is that… Continue Reading
NH Goes Live: “China Eat My Lamb Kebab”
Posted in Good PeopleProbably the most famous commenter in the Chinese blogosphere just started his own blog. It appears to be called “China, eat my lamb kebab!” and it is by non other than nanheyangrouchuan (nh for short). I will let him explain the rationale and the anticipated methodology behind his blog: Many have suggested I start a… Continue Reading
The Meaning Of Made In China
Posted in China BusinessInteresting article the other day by Reinhardt Krause in Investor’s Business Daily/CNN Story is entitled, “China, Companies Have A Lot At Stake Over Major Recalls” and it focuses on the recent rash of product safety problems coming out of China. The story starts out by stating that it is “mostly suppliers that knowingly cut corners… Continue Reading
China Racism: That Dog Don’t Hunt
Posted in Recommended ReadingNot sure why the sudden onslaught of these posts, but three good ones out there all of a sudden on whether the West (and we Western bloggers, in particular) look at China through racist, post-colonialist or paternalistic eyes. The Humannaught started it off in his post, “Am I a Racist?” He concludes that though he… Continue Reading
How To Tarnish Your China Image (Or Not)
Posted in China BusinessJust came across a post on China business culture over at the Wu Way Blog that does a nice job setting out some business culture basics. It is entitled, “Five ways to tarnish your company’s image in China” (h/t to China Success Stories) and it sets forth the following five ways to hurt your image… Continue Reading
China Copycat Or Amazing Coincidence?
Posted in China BusinessWhen my daughter was 15 — like nearly all 15 year olds — she became convinced her parents (and in this case, her 8 year old sister as well) were complete idiots, and she herself was a genius. This led me to often ask her (genius that she thought she was) what the odds were… Continue Reading
Promising China Blog — Think China
Posted in Recommended ReadingFinding myself reading and liking the Think China blog. The blog’s about page describes its author as follows: Grew up in Hong Kong, I have a unique perspective on China – while by no means an expert, I have a strong interest in China’s culture, language, people, social and business environments, and most of all,… Continue Reading
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