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How to Buy IP Legal Services: What You Need and What You Don’t

Businesses often spend thousands protecting intellectual property they barely need while leaving their most valuable assets exposed. Drawing on decades of international legal experience and real client cases, we explain which IP legal services are worth buying, which are not, how to choose the right lawyer, and how to avoid expensive mistakes

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China Domain Name and Trademark Scam Emails

Received an email warning that someone in China is registering your company name as a domain or trademark? Many are scams, but some trademark warnings involve genuine applications and deadlines. Learn how to check the claims, recognize misleading solicitations, and decide whether your business needs protection.

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Moving Manufacturing From China to Mexico

Moving manufacturing from China to Mexico offers real advantages, but getting it right takes careful planning. This guide covers tariffs and USMCA rules, manufacturing costs, Mexican labor laws, shelter companies, IP protection, and how to leave China without putting your business at risk.

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How to Protect Your IP in China: Answers to the Questions Foreign Companies Ask Most

Protecting IP in China works best before your manufacturer has your designs, molds, brand, or technology. This guide answers the China IP questions foreign companies ask us most often, from NNN Agreements and manufacturing contracts to trademarks, molds, design patents, distributors, employees, and what to do after something has already gone wrong.

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When AI Tells You What Legal Work You Need

AI is changing how clients approach lawyers. Increasingly, they arrive with a detailed legal plan already in hand. The problem is that even accurate AI-generated advice can be wrong for the business asking the question. Good legal advice starts by asking why.

How to Sue a Chinese company in a court or via arbitration

How to Sue a Chinese Company

How to Sue a Chinese Company. Choosing between litigating or arbitrating in your home country or litigating or arbitrating in China. This article arms you with the information you need to decide whether and how to sue a Chinese Company and it will help you with your litigation and arbitration strategies if you sue in a Chinese or a foreign court or if you pursue arbitration in China or outside China.

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Your AI-Drafted China Contract Says It Needs a Lawyer. Listen to It.

AI can produce a polished China contract while leaving its most important and complicated terms blank. Governing law, forum, language, service, and enforcement decide whether a company can stop a Chinese factory, recover its tooling, or reach assets after the deal goes bad.

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AI Didn't Replace Lawyers. It Gave Us the 48-Page Contract.

AI Didn't Replace Lawyers. It Gave Us the 48-Page Contract. In 1972, two lawyers a few years out of school opened a storefront office in Van Nuys and called it the Legal Clinic of Jacoby and Meyers. Leonard Jacoby and Stephen Meyers were going after the large group of people who earned too much to

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