Who Should Own Your China IP? Maybe Not You.
We 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...
View ArticleAnother China WTO Loss. Another Nail In The Coffin Of World Trade.
By: 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...
View ArticleHow To Protect Your IP From China. Part 1.
Last 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...
View ArticleHow To Protect Your IP From China. Part 2.
Last 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...
View ArticleHow To Protect Your IP From China. Part 3.
This 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...
View ArticleRegister Your China Trademark Or Go Home, Part II.
Late last week, we did a post, Register Your China Trademark Or Go Home, screaming about the importance of foreign companies that do business in or with China (including those foreign companies that do...
View ArticleRegister Your China Trademark Now. Then Register It Again With Customs.
According 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...
View ArticleHow To Stop Your Chinese Supplier From Becoming Your Competitor.
Renaud Anjoran over at the Quality Inspection Tips blog recently wrote on “How your Chinese suppliers might become your competitors.” Anjoran provides some excellent suggestions for preventing your...
View ArticleProtecting Your IP From China. The Value And The Peril Of Trade Fairs.
Spoke the other day with a consumer goods client who goes to a couple of trade fairs every year in the PRC. He told me of some funny (and not so funny) trade fair stories, some of which revolved...
View ArticleWhere To Locate In China? Or Why Weifang Isn’t Suzhou.
I am constantly telling our clients that just because something happens one way in Shanghai does not mean it is going to happen the same way in Datong. It is more than cliche to say that China is a...
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