When I saw that Law Student Daniel Reiter (a third-year at Suffolk University Law School in Boston) had written a law school paper on sourcing product from China, I asked him to send it to me. When I saw how good Daniel’s law school paper is, I asked him if I could run it on the… Continue Reading
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A Webinar For Companies/Inside Counsel Doing Business With China. February 20, 2013.
Posted in EventsOn 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
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
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
An ABC To Losing Your China IP
Posted in China Business, Legal NewsFascinating article up on the Wall Street Journal, written by Geoff Nairn and entitled, “Patents are a Virtue,” and subtitled, “China is a land of opportunity for business, but it is also a land of counterfeiting and intellectual property theft.” The article is on counterfeiting in China and the various innovative ways companies act to… 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 Hollywood Films In China Makes Sense For China.
Posted in China Business, Events, Legal NewsI was fortunate enough to have been invited to attend a recent session in Beijing convened by Nancy E. Kremers, the Senior IP Attaché to the US Embassy here. The purpose of the session was for intellectual property lawyers from US firms, together with representatives of IP-dependent US companies, to brief the Attaché on current… Continue Reading
How And Why To Trademark In China.
Posted in Basics of China Business Law, Legal NewsIf you are doing business in or with China you should give serious thought to registering your trademarks in China. In particular, you should consider a China trademark registration for your trade-name, your logo and your service marks. Brand identity is critical for success in China (as it is just about everywhere) and if you… 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
The Most Common China Law Issues.
Posted in Basics of China Business Law, China Business, Legal NewsClients, potential clients and the press are always asking me what foreign companies that do business in China need to know to stay out of legal trouble. Next time I get such a question, I will refer them to the list below as it sets out the most common legal issues foreign companies face when… Continue Reading
Yes Virginia, There Is IP Protection In China.
Posted in Legal NewsA couple weeks ago, I did a post entitled, No IP Enforcement In China. That Cannot Be True, in which I talked about how it is just not true that Chinese courts will not enforce a foreign company’s intellectual property rights against a Chinese defendant. I then discussed a recent high profile and high damage… Continue Reading
China: Where Even The “Law Firms” Are Fake
Posted in Legal NewsIn the movie, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey) gets stabbed countless times by massive spears, knifed a few times, flipped completely over a couple times, and stepped and trampled upon. He takes all of this with amazing equanimity. But when his hair gets ruffled, he becomes furious and yells, “NOBODY MESSES… Continue Reading
Media On China: The Good, The Bad, And The Really Ugly
Posted in China BusinessI used to rail more often on media coverage of China, but after paring my China reading down to just those who know whereof they speak (The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Forbes, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Newsweek International, The Sydney Morning Herald, and McClatchy Newspapers (formerly Knight Ridder), (and the Economist, as… Continue Reading
Chinese Pirates Like Chinese Brands And That’s A Good Thing
Posted in Legal NewsChina Business Blog (an excellent blog on doing business in China) did a nice post the other day, entitled, “Chinese Pirates Like Chinese Brands Too,” on increasing intellectual property litigation in China between Chinese companies. The post is based in large part on a McLatchy Newspaper article that describes China as the most litigious country… 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
China Leads Rise in Patent Filings
Posted in Legal NewsThe World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced today [link no longer exists] that global patent applications reached a record high, thanks in large part to a 44 percent increase in filings from China. According to WIPO’s general director, “As Chinese enterprises look to export markets … they become more concerned about international patent protection.” We… Continue Reading
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