Yesterday I attended a USPTO webinar, How the U.S. government can help companies protect and enforce their IP in China. It was informative and I highly encourage anyone interested in IP protection in China to attend future webinars. Moreover, it brought back memories of my own stint in the government helping American companies protect their
Contents of this Article: I. Cybersecurity with Chinese Characteristics: The Party is the leader of everything. II. China’s Comprehensive Network Security Program III. China’s Regulatory System: The Multi-Level Protection Scheme (MLPS 2.0) IV. Cryptography is not a solution. V. A Concrete Example: The Golden Tax Malware Program VI. How Companies are Pushed into an Insecure
Got an email yesterday with a link to an old discussion on a Reddit group regarding the cost of setting up and doing business in China. The discussion began with someone seeking information regarding the best way to set up a business in China and information about what that will cost. I am not going
China Contract Damages: How to Give Your Contract Real Teeth When a Chinese factory refused to return our client’s custom molds, it apparently believed possession gave it leverage. Our client had paid for the tooling, owned it outright, and could not continue production without it. Our Chinese litigation counsel filed suit and obtained a freeze
Our China lawyers have gone through many China downturns in the last twenty years, but none to match the current one. China's relations with the rest of the world are in a free-fall and China's economy is hurting. Whenever either of these things are true, China steps up its tax collection and compliance enforcement against
How to Avoid International Business/Legal Problems. Preparation is everything and we explain how to prepare.
China Joint Ventures With China's economy in a downturn and so much uncertainty regarding the future of US/China and EU/China relations, our China business lawyers have lately been seeing an uptick in companies looking to do China joint ventures "to share in the risk." When done right, China joint ventures do share risk. But when
Many Chinese factories are hurting right now. Badly. This should come as no surprise. First they went through months of closures due to the coronavirus, and just when they opened they faced massively reduced demand. Chinese factories are closing left and right and many of those that are open are facing reduced demand and falling
Last week, Fred Rocafort (one of our international trade lawyers), Dan Pak (a VP of Procurement at a large East Coast hospital chain) and I put on a 90+ minute webinar on navigating PPE purchases from China. Based on the feedback we have received and the fact that a number of webinar companies have asked
