أرسل لي الأستاذ الجامعي المتخصص في القانون الصيني دونالد كلارك هذا الأسبوع مقالاً رائعاً من مجلة «نيويورك ماغازين» بعنوان «كيف طردت الصين شركة مستر سوفتي». وجاء في رسالة البريد الإلكتروني التي أرسلها الأستاذ كلارك مع الرابط ما يلي: «ظننت أنك قد تعجبك هذه المقالة. ومن المثير للاهتمام أنها ليست قصة من نوع "رجل يتجاهل القواعد، ويثق بسذاجة في شريكه الصيني، فيقع ضحية خديعة"؛ بل هي قصة "رجل يقوم بـ..."
Though we’ve written about this many times previously, I’m writing about it again today because my law firm’s China lawyers have been seeing a lot more of this lately, especially as against European companies. We have been getting a number of emails lately from companies asking us if what their Chinese counter-parties are asking them
Countless foreign software companies wish to deliver their software as a service (SaaS) to China. But since China requires commercial ICP licenses for commercial Internet services within China and generally forbids foreign enterprises from obtaining such licenses, directly providing SaaS through a server in China is typically not possible for foreign software companies. So how can a foreign
In the past few months, our China lawyers have been seeing something new and troubling with China licensing agreements. Before I explain, let me step back and give a bit of history. This post is important so please stay with me. In a typical China licensing deal the foreign licensor grants the Chinese licensee the
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
لو أردت أن أعدد العشرة أخطاء الأكبر أو الأكثر شيوعًا التي يلاحظها محامو مكتبنا المتخصصون في الشؤون الصينية، لكان عدم تأسيس فرع في الصين عند الضرورة، وتأسيس فرع فيها دون داعٍ على حد سواء، ضمن تلك القائمة. ونحن نكتب باستمرار عن مخاطر ممارسة الأعمال التجارية في الصين دون وجود فرع. انظر: ممارسة الأعمال التجارية في
With the recent onslaught of tariffs, our international manufacturing lawyers are increasingly drafting manufacturing contracts for Asian countries beyond China. In the last few weeks alone, we’ve drafted manufacturing contracts for Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, and India. We also have seen a noticeable uptick in our Mexico contracts as well. One of the issues our
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
China manufacturing contracts are very different from Western manufacturing contracts, for reasons which stem from differences in laws or differences in economics. This means our China manufacturing lawyers often must explain why they are doing something in China manufacturing so different from the way the client “always does it” in the West. One of the
Like so many other U.S. industries, the U.S. vaping industry is now in the crosshairs of a 25% tariff on products imported from China. The first two waves of proposed tariffs against China covered about $50 billion worth of Chinese products, but did not include vaping products. After China retaliated and proposed its own equivalent
