Nuestro bufete de abogados recibe a menudo llamadas de empresas que alegan que «una empresa está vendiendo su producto bajo su nombre comercial en Amazon» y nos piden que enviemos una carta de cese y desistimiento «de inmediato» para que esa empresa deje de infringir sus derechos de propiedad intelectual. Nuestra respuesta habitual es decir que rara vez es una buena idea
Good forum selection clauses make disputes go faster and cost less. A bad forum selection clause can tank your case.
I love when blog posts come pre-written. In cleaning out old emails today I found one from one of my law firm’s international dispute resolution lawyers to a Canadian client’s in-house lawyer who had proposed writing a contract that would give the client the choice of suing its Chinese counter-party in either Canada or China.
No need to pay your Chinese creditors because they rarely will do anything about it.
El Tribunal Supremo de los Estados Unidos ha aceptado examinar un caso de infracción de marca registrada en virtud de la Ley Lanham que tiene enormes implicaciones para los fabricantes y vendedores de productos con sede fuera de los Estados Unidos. El caso es Hetronic International, Inc. contra Hetronic Germany GMBH y otros. El caso tiene su origen en una sentencia de 114 millones de dólares a favor de una empresa industrial
It is a helluva lot easier and cheaper to avoid losing money than to recover money that has already been lost. Whether you use Alibaba or not, there are certain "rules" you should follow when sourcing products from China and those rules include (1) conducting due diligence on your potential supplier, (2) protecting your IP, and (3) having a good contract with your supplier. And yes, all of this applies no matter what the color star your supplier has on Alibaba.
Se puede discutir todo lo que se quiera sobre los riesgos del arbitraje en Hong Kong, pero el mero hecho de que ahora muchos más abogados consideren que Hong Kong es un lugar de arbitraje más arriesgado que Singapur, Nueva York, Ginebra, París y Londres debería ser motivo suficiente para NO incluir una cláusula de arbitraje en Hong Kong en sus contratos.
This post describes how to properly effect service of process on a Chinese company or individual under the Hague Convention.
About six months ago, in Deliberately Bringing China Down, Factory by Factory, I wrote about a couple of Americans who were buying product on credit from Chinese factories, with no intention of ever making the required second payment: The “this” to which I am referring is an underground (I say underground because I have never
A basic list of questions companies should be asking when seeking to decide whether to sue in a foreign country and the lawyers to use when doing so.
