Learn why registering your trademark in China is essential even for manufacturing-only operations. Discover how to navigate CNIPA rejections and protect your brand from squatters.
Our international IP lawyers love lists and the below is a list of the 12 things we most often recommend regarding China trademarks to our clients that do business in China and have at least one brand they care about. Most of these items apply with equal force to most other countries as well. 1.
1. On the Importance of China Trademark Registrations If 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
With companies falling all over themselves to move their manufacturing out of China to reduce their risks (and their tariffs), my law firm’s international manufacturing lawyers are not only hearing from many companies wanting to leave China, but from many companies in big trouble for not having properly engineered their leaving China. In The Single
عندما يتصل أحدهم بمحامينا الدوليين لـ«صياغة عقد»، فإننا عادةً ما نحتاج أولاً إلى تحديد ما إذا كان الوقت قد حان لصياغة العقد أم لا. على سبيل المثال، إذا أراد أحد العملاء أن نقوم بصياغة اتفاقية تصنيع المعدات الأصلية (OEM) لتصنيع منتجاته من قبل الشركة «أ»، فلا فائدة من أن نبدأ في
This post focuses on protecting against intellectual property losses arise from what we call leakage — the situation where a company has a contract preventing its foreign counter-party (usually a foreign manufacturer) from using its proprietary information, but fails to prevent that information from leaking to third parties not bound by such a contract. When
When our China lawyers are tasked with drafting a China NNN Agreement, they start by sending the client a tailored questionnaire. Then once they have the answers they draft the NNN Agreement in English (for the client) and in Chinese (the official version). Most of the time, our clients at that point take the NNN
لا تُعتبر البث الرياضي موضوعًا لحقوق النشر لا يُعتبر البث الرياضي موضوعًا لحقوق النشر بموجب القانون الصيني، على الرغم من أنه تم الاعتراف به على هذا النحو في بعض السوابق القضائية الصينية. وهذا يجعل من الضروري للعلامات التجارية الرياضية، مثل الدوريات أو الجهات المرخص لها، التصدي للقرصنة باستخدام قوانين مكافحة المنافسة غير المشروعة الصينية.
Do not gift your IP to your Chinese factory For all the talk of moving manufacturing out of China, most hardware companies that develop cutting edge hardware are pretty much stuck there, at least for a few more years. They have to go to China to have their product manufactured. There simply are not factories
This is Part 2 in what will be a long-running series by Scott Holbrook and Adam-Paul Smolak on how the United States and the rest of the world can take back much of the manufacturing they sent to China and thereby bring high-level manufacturing jobs to the United States and to allied countries. Go here
