In China Factories Are Exporting Lower Prices Around the World, Bloomberg News wrote this week about something our internmational manufacturing lawyers have been seeing: Desperate Chinese factories are lowering their prices. Are all Chinese factories desperate? Absolutely not. Are all Chinese factories lowering their prices? Near as we can tell, a great many are, especially
You Need an NNN Agreement for China IP Protection Relying on a standard Western-style NDA to protect your IP from China sets you up for IP theft because NDAs have critical limitations that render them ineffective for China. You need an NNN agreement tailored specifically for China. This post explains what an NNN agreement is,
Looking to do business with a Chinese company? About to send a Chinese company some money? Want to know whether that Chinese company is worthy of your business and your trust? How do you do get information on a Chinese company when certain private investigatory work in China is illegal? Our clients often ask us to
1. الشركات الغربية ترغب في مغادرة الصين، وهي تغادر الصين بالفعل نشرت صحيفة «وول ستريت جورنال» الأسبوع الماضي مقالاً على صفحتها الأولى حول سعي الشركات الأمريكية إلى تقليص تعرضها للمخاطر في الصين. ويؤكد هذا المقال، الذي يحمل عنوان «اتفاق التجارة وحده لن يصلح العلاقات التجارية المتوترة بين الولايات المتحدة والصين»، ما كنا نقوله منذ أشهر حول كيفية قيام الشركات الأمريكية و
File for Your China Trademark in China, not Madrid Whenever clients ask about China trademark registration through the Madrid System, my advice is pretty straightforward: filing directly with the Chinese Trademark Office (CTMO) is almost always the smarter choice. China’s Trademark System China’s trademark system is a bit of a maze—complex, idiosyncratic, and highly regimented.
An article titled, Kickstarter Prototype to Production: $100K is not Enough, is getting a lot of play on Linkedin among the China manufacturing crowd, with those I know who know China manufacturing agreeing with it. The article provides compelling reasons why getting an electronics product manufactured in China will nearly always require more than $100,000.
The purpose of a trademark, from both a legal and branding perspective, is to identify the source of goods. It follows, therefore, that the best trademarks are both memorable and distinctive. You want people to associate your brand with your company, not confuse your brand with other brands. You also want to make sure your
Not surprisingly, our China lawyers are seeing a massive increase in foreign companies seeking to reduce or eliminate their China ties. Many are seeking to terminate their relationship with their Chinese suppliers and move production elsewhere (so far, it’s been mostly to Vietnam, Taiwan, Poland, Thailand, Mexico, Brazil, India and Malaysia). The other day I
كل ما يتعلق بالصين يأتي على شكل موجات، و«سرقة» العلامات التجارية الصينية ليست استثناءً. عندما بدأنا هذا المدونة في عام 2006، كنا نتلقى مكالمة كل أسبوع تقريبًا من شخص يرغب في رفع دعوى قضائية ضد شركة صينية تمنع منتجاته من مغادرة الصين. كنا نكره تلك المكالمات لأننا في معظم الأحيان
كثيرًا ما يُسأل محامونا المتخصصون في العلامات التجارية في الصين عن الفرق بين نظام تصنيف نيس للعلامات التجارية ونظام الفئات الفرعية للعلامات التجارية في الصين. وهما نظامان مرتبطان ببعضهما، لكنهما مختلفان تمامًا. نظام تصنيف نيس هو تصنيف دولي للسلع والخدمات يقسم جميع السلع والخدمات الممكنة إلى 45 فئة: 34 فئة للسلع و
