Todo lo relacionado con China llega por oleadas, y el «robo» de marcas registradas en China no es una excepción. Cuando empezamos este blog allá por 2006, recibíamos una llamada casi todas las semanas de alguien que quería demandar a una empresa china para impedir que su producto saliera de China. Odiábamos esas llamadas porque, la mayoría de las veces, nuestro
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
A lawyer friend of mine emailed me a link the other day that had been sent to him by one of his clients. The link was to an article written nearly two years ago, China Supplier Vetting, Part 1: Background Checks, and he wanted my opinion on it. I responded by telling my friend that
Nuestros abogados especializados en propiedad intelectual en China han observado últimamente un aumento constante en el número de solicitudes de patentes de diseño en ese país, a medida que las empresas occidentales comprenden cada vez más la necesidad de actuar de forma proactiva para proteger su propiedad intelectual frente a China. La mayoría de las patentes de diseño que presentamos tienen por objeto proteger diseños de productos, pero algunas se solicitan con fines defensivos. Las patentes de diseño defensivas son
Cuando trabajamos en acuerdos complejos de fabricación por encargo, la mayoría de nuestros clientes nos indican que su principal objetivo es proteger su propiedad intelectual. Esto es especialmente cierto en el caso de los diseñadores de productos de nuevas empresas, cuya propiedad intelectual consiste en gran parte en secretos comerciales y conocimientos técnicos que requieren un acuerdo formal con el fabricante. Sin embargo, a medida que trabajamos
Los fabricantes chinos tienen fama de fabricar y enviar productos defectuosos. Como es lógico, los compradores extranjeros de estos productos defectuosos suelen negarse a pagar a la fábrica china cualquier importe adicional por ellos. La cantidad impagada suele ser considerable. A continuación, el comprador extranjero recurre a una nueva fábrica. Esta nueva fábrica suele estar situada en la misma
Smart Chinese manufacturers know that with their costs rising, they need to be able to distinguish themselves from their peers. One of the ways they are choosing to do this (even more frequently than in the past) is by copying and selling products they are making for their foreign customers. See Your China Factory as
Visit Your Overseas Factories One of the things my law firm’s international manufacturing lawyers always tell our clients is to visit their overseas factories, if at all possible. Factory Visits Show You Care Such a trip is critical for the following four reasons: Visiting your foreign factory emphasizes that you care. Why should your factory
One of the joys of blogging is finding gems in unlikely places. The gem is a post entitled Jewelry and Gold Plating Problems: Can You Trust Chinese Factories? I say unlikely because neither (nor I would bet, most of our readers) have much interest in jewelry plating problems. The post is written by a Shenzhen-based
