Chinese Courts’ Anti-Suit Injunctions Reveal a Stark New Reality
Chinese courts are using anti-suit injunctions to exert tremendous power over foreign companies.
China Trademarks: More Useful and More Necessary Than Ever
China trademark protections just keep getting better
Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos, China, and Due Diligence: Don’t Trust AND Verify
China company due diligence is needed now more than ever.
The Five Most Basic Rules for Doing Business in a Foreign Country
The Five keys to succeeding in a foreign country.
China Trademarks: Counterfeit Goods and Parallel Imports
Our international IP lawyers do a lot of work for clients seeking to remove listings of counterfeit goods from Chinese e-commerce sites. Most of these listings are for obviously, sometimes extravagantly counterfeit merchandise, offered in vast quantities at far-below retail prices, with pictures either lifted from the real manufacturer’s website or showing products of dubious quality,
Make China Trademarks a Priority
I am not a big fan of filing Madrid Protocol applications for China. In certain situations, they can work well, but when they don’t work (which is fairly often) the trademark registration process takes longer and costs more than just filing a national application. See China Trademarks. Register Them In China Not Madrid. Filing a
China Trademarks: Register in More Classes, Take Down More Counterfeit Goods
When registering your trademark in China, it is important you choose your China trademark classes wisely and not choose to register in too many or in too few China trademark classes.
China Trademarks: When (and How) to Prove Use of a Mark in Commerce
Unlike the United States, you do not need to prove “use” for a China trademark application to proceed to registration, and once a trademark is registered you do not have to prove you are still using trademark to be able to maintain or renew the registration for that trademark. Foreign companies have come to realize
China Trademarks and Your Chinese Distributor
Your China distribution contract should contain provisions that protect your brand name in China.
