I have to admit that one of the things I love about both China and Russia is that they take various international days seriously, that nobody even knows about in the United States. I suspect that is due to communism and/or its remnants. Anyway, as part of today’s World Intellectual Property Rights Day (how many… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: China IP
China IP. The Blog.
Posted in Recommended ReadingTime that I mention a really good and high-level blog that focuses on China IP. The blog is called China IPR and it is headed up by Mark Cohen, a law professor at Fordham Law School. It completely accurately describes itself as follows: ChinaIPR.com is published by Mark Allen Cohen, a Visiting Professor of Law at Fordham… Continue Reading
China Trademarks. Doing Them With Class.
Posted in Basics of China Business Law, Legal NewsAs we have written many times over the years, if you are selling goods into China, sourcing goods from China, or even just doing business in China or with China, you probably should be registering a trademark in China for your logos and brand names. China is a first-to-file country and it requires no evidence… Continue Reading
China Conferences In November And December
Posted in China Business, Events, Legal NewsWhat with we lawyers needing to complete our Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits before the end of the year, my November and December are jam-packed with speaking engagements. In the hope that some of our readers will be able to attend one or more of these events, I will briefly set them out here now… Continue Reading
How To Protect Your IP From China. Part 5.
Posted in Legal NewsThis is the final part of a series arising from a speech I gave last month at a biotechnology conference in Washington DC. In How To Protect Your IP From China. Part 1, I mostly looked at the risks China poses to intellectual property and very generally on how companies can determine how those risks should… Continue Reading
How To Protect Your IP From China. Part 4.
Posted in Legal NewsThis is part four of a series arising from a speech I gave last month at a biotechnology conference in Washington DC. In How To Protect Your IP From China. Part 1, I mostly looked at the risks China poses to intellectual property and very generally on how companies can determine how those risks should influence… Continue Reading
How To Protect Your IP From China. Part 3.
Posted in Legal NewsThis is part three of a series arising from a speech I gave last month at a biotechnology conference in Washington DC. In How To Protect Your IP From China. Part 1, I mostly looked at the risks China poses to intellectual property and very generally on how companies can determine how those risks should influence… Continue Reading
How To Protect Your IP From China. Part 2.
Posted in Legal NewsLast month I gave a speech at a leading biotechnology conference in Washington DC on how to protect your IP from China. Over the next few days, I am going to re-print that speech (in parts) here on this blog. This is part 2 of that series. Part 1 can be found here. Please recognize… Continue Reading
How To Protect Your IP From China. Part 1.
Posted in Legal NewsLast month I gave a speech at a leading biotechnology conference in Washington DC on how to protect your IP from China. Over the next few days, I am going to re-print that speech (in parts) here on this blog. As you have probably already guessed, this is part 1. Please recognize that this is… Continue Reading
How To Protect Your China IP. Don’t Hire Anyone….
Posted in Legal NewsYour enemy won’t do you no harm Cause you’ll know where he’s coming from Don’t let the handshake and the smile fool ya Take my advice I’m only try’ to school ya From the song, “Smiling Faces,” by the Temptations You know how when you buy a new car, you immediately start seeing your same… Continue Reading
IMAX/DMAX As Textbook Example Of What Happens To Foreign Technology In China
Posted in China Film Industry, Legal NewsStan Abrams has a thought pondering post up on his China Hearsay blog, entitled, “DMAX: This is What Happens to Foreign Technology Companies in China.” The post is on a Chinese rival to IMAX, called DMAX and Stan concludes his post by saying he expects “to see this written up as a case study for… Continue Reading
Who Should Own Your China IP? Maybe Not You.
Posted in Legal NewsWe have been handling way more than the usual number of disputes between our clients and Chinese companies. In a number of these cases, our clients paid money to Chinese factories with whom they had been doing business for years and the Chinese factories simply refused to send over any product. These Chinese companies claimed… Continue Reading
Protect Your China IP With Character.
Posted in China Business, Legal NewsI know I have said this a million times, but what I like so much about practicing law is that I get to work with the same companies for year after year and so i get to see what works and what doesn’t. What I have found, maybe not that surprisingly, is that some companies… Continue Reading
China Outsourcing. The Basics. But Don’t Just Trust Me….
Posted in Basics of China Business Law, China Business, Legal NewsOne of the things that drives me nuts is how some businesspeople act as though the laws in China are so unclear that either nobody knows how to do things right or that there is no point in even trying. But in so many areas of China business, there is a real uniformity of views among… Continue Reading
China As Intellectual Property Powerhouse? Someday. Maybe.
Posted in Legal News, Recommended ReadingCNN China correspondent Lara Farrar, just wrote an excellent story on China’s efforts to boost its intellectual property protection so as to better enable it to become an innovation-based economy. The article is entitled, “Keeping things safe: China aims to boost its intellectual property rights,” and it nicely highlights Beijing’s increasing emphasis on IP and… Continue Reading
Doing Business In Or With China. Ask Yourself These Questions.
Posted in Basics of China Business Law, Legal NewsA consultant friend of mine is leading a very large group of American businesses to China for a big exhibition. He is putting together a short manual for these businesses and he asked me to help put the bug into the ear of these businesses that they should not be ignoring China legal issues. … Continue Reading
What About Chinese Companies Taking Your IP?
Posted in China Business, Legal NewsLast week, co-blogger Steve Dickinson and I spoke at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Beijing. From our perspective, the best part of our talk were the excellent questions posed to us by the reporters in attendance. There was one question I pretty much punted on and though I have thought much about it since, I… Continue Reading
The Seven Things To Do When Your China IP Has Been Compromised.
Posted in Legal NewsStan Abrams over at China Hearsay just did an excellent how-to post entitled, “Pirates Beware! Gearing Up for the China IP Enforcement Lecture.” The post does a great job explaining how to handle a China IP problem, though the steps it sets out would pretty much work fine for just about any legal issue needing… Continue Reading
China Legal Issues For Business. The Ten Minute Version. Part II.
Posted in Legal NewsI spoke last week (for ten minutes) in Atlanta at NACA’s First Annual US-China Business Conference. I posted that speech (the written version of it, anyway) in a post entitled China Legal Issues For Business. The Ten Minute Version. In going through and deleting old emails today, I came across my first, very different version… Continue Reading
China Trademarks. Rumors Of Speed Are Greatly Exaggerated.
Posted in Legal NewsRecently gave some China trademark advice of somewhat universal applicablity. The first was for a client getting ready to register a couple of its trademarks in China. They asked how long “it would all take” and I gave my standard answer. We typically take a week or two to get everything set up and filed,… Continue Reading
How Risky Is China?
Posted in China Business, Legal NewsExcellent post by Rich Brubaker of the All Roads Lead to China blog on his discussion with Neal Beatty entitled, “Identifying, Measuring, and Taking Action on the Risks of China.” It is the kind of post every company doing business in or even with China should read. The post sets out an amazingly comprehensive… Continue Reading
Will China Ever Really Protect IP?
Posted in Legal NewsThe following is by Stephanie Henry, one of our legal assistants, who will soon be starting the Masters in Communications program at Johns Hopkins University. It is a commonly held assumption (and one often stated here at CLB) that the increase in Chinese companies seeking protection of their own intellectual property (IP) in China will… Continue Reading
Fear The China Joint Venture And Front-Load Your China Licensing Agreements.
Posted in Legal NewsThe China Economic Review just published a piece on China business relationships by Andrew Hupert, a professor of negotiation at NYU in Shanghai. The article is entitled, “Trouble in commercial paradise,” and its thesis is that Chinese companies usually view their relationships with Western companies as short-term. Hupert starts out by talking of how even… Continue Reading
China Intellectual Property (IP). I Hate Cats.
Posted in China Business, Legal NewsThe China Economic Review just came out with a column by Andrew Hupert, entitled, “Schroedinger’s copyright: Negotiating with Chinese about IP and brands requires quantum thinking.” It is on a completely different topic than I initially expected and so I will first cover the article and then I will cover the expected topic. Hupert’s article is… Continue Reading
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