On February 20 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern, I will be co-presenting a China law webinar, along with Andrea Charters, Vice President and Associate General Counsel of Rosetta Stone Inc. LexisNexis is sponsorig this webinar and, incredibly enough, it is entirely free. We will be gearing our presentations towards in house counsel and together we will be addressing the… Continue Reading
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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
Another China WTO Loss. Another Nail In The Coffin Of World Trade.
Posted in China Business, Legal NewsBy: Steve Dickinson Preserving its track record of major defeats before the WTO, China recently lost its appeal of the WTO panel decision in the minerals export case. The appeal decision was issued on January 30 and can be found here. Briefly stated, the original panel report held that Chinese export duties and export quotas… 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
Patent Litigation In China. The Book. And It Is Good….
Posted in Legal News, Recommended ReadingThough i keep saying this, I will say it again: there are now a number of really good practice-oriented English language books on Chinese law. I can remember not so long ago when people would ask me to recommend books to help them better understand what they needed to know regarding China Law and my… Continue Reading
Protecting Your Intellectual Property In China, Part I.
Posted in Basics of China Business Law, Legal NewsThis post is part I of what is going to be a multi-part, somewhat irregular series on protecting your IP in China. This part I and tomorrow’s part II, were written by Steve Dickinson, and are based in large part on a talk Steve gave last week in Qingdao. Over the last couple of years,… Continue Reading
Cover Your Bases In China By Covering Your IP
Posted in Legal NewsThe All Roads Lead to China Blog just did a post, entitled, “Cover Your Bases. Cover Your Patents,” on the need to protect your intellectual property (patents, trademarks, and copyrights) in China. The post starts out by describing the extent of the problem: Ask anyone who has worked in China, traveled to a trade show,… Continue Reading
When Your IP Is In China . . . .
Posted in Legal NewsJust read a very practical article in Legal Times, entitled, “When Your IP is Far Away,” written by Bruce F. Metge, an attorney with East Coast mega-firm Mintz Levin. The article is appropriately subtitled, “To safeguard IP assets in an outsourcing deal, develop a strong contract and an even stronger business relationship.” Nothing revelatory here,… Continue Reading
Nokia Brings China IP Lawsuit — Nokia Is Smart
Posted in Legal NewsFinnish communications giant, Nokia, just brought an intellectual property lawsuit in Beijing Court against two Shenzhen-based Chinese phone manufacturers, Shenzhen Telsda Mobile Communication Industry Developing Co. Ltd and Song Xun Da Zhong Ke Electronic (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. Nokia also named the distributors of the offending phones, Beijing Tongwanbao Commerce & Trade Co. Ltd An Wai… Continue Reading
IP Dragon Returns From China IP Conference With Notes
Posted in Legal NewsThe IP Dragon blog, which focuses on China intellectual property rights (IPR), today posted what it calls “the first installment of a series” on The IP in China Conference, just concluded in London. To summarize: 1. Most of the speakers agreed China was working to improve intellectual property protection. The speakers said many small and… Continue Reading
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