A few weeks ago, one of the lawyers in my office, emailed me an article co-written by a law school friend of hers. The article was on trademark infringement in the clothing industry and on what clothing companies/fashion companies should do to protect their China trademarks, written by Yujing Shu and Hai-Ching Yang of KLGates. The note with the… Continue Reading
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Register Your China Trademark Now. Then Register It Again With Customs.
Posted in UncategorizedAccording to recently released statistics, in 2012 Chinese Customs (General Administration of Customs or GAC for short) seized approximately 15,000 shipments of counterfeit goods, the vast majority of which were exports. This was the first year since the Beijing Olympics in which the numbers weren’t goosed by a “special campaign” or similar program, and on… 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
Apple v. Proview. China Trademarks And So Much To Learn.
Posted in Legal NewsA reporter called me the other day on the Apple-Proview trademark kerfuffle. She kept wanting me to give her a quote on what foreign companies should take away from this dispute and I kept parrying with her, unable to give her just one. I kept finding myself saying “it’s probably more complicated than that.” … Continue Reading
How To Achieve Problem Free China Outsourcing. Or Not.
Posted in China BusinessWe are always preaching that if you 1) choose a good manufacturer, 2) use a good OEM contract, 3) engage in good quality control monitoring, and register your trademark, the odds are overwhelming that you will do just fine in outsourcing your product from China. The odds just went down. In 2009 and 2010 and… Continue Reading
China Trademark Law: Simple And Effective
Posted in Legal NewsEarlier this year, I wrote an article for the Alaska Bar Magazine [link no longer exists] (I am an Alaska Bar member!) on China’s trademark laws, mostly extolling how necessary it is to secure such a trademark and how relatively simple it is. Nothing much in the article that we have not been saying here… Continue Reading
More Favorable IPR Rulings from China’s Provinces
Posted in Legal NewsChina Daily ran an article today, entitled, “IPR Special.” The article talks about a number of pending and recently resolved lawsuits involving foreign companies: The Walt Disney Company filed a lawsuit in Shenzhen, alleging “Mickeyle,” a Shenzhen-based children’s clothing manufacturer, illegally uses Disney’s registered trademark “MICKEY & CO” and “MICKEY UNLIMITED.” Disney is seeking around… Continue Reading
Faked in China — Protection is Possible
Posted in Legal NewsA reader in Arkansas sent us this article from CSO Magazine [article link no longer exists], entitled, “13 Ways to Protect Your Company in China.” This article does a very thorough job of both setting out the problems and putting forth a strong list of solutions. The article notes that “security experts don’t buy into… Continue Reading
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