Renaud Anjoran over at the Quality Inspection Tips blog recently wrote on How your Chinese suppliers might become your competitors. Renaud provides excellent suggestions for preventing your foreign product supplier from competing with you, based on his notes from a talk by Paul Melkebeke, Samsonite’s Vice President for Asia. Melkebeke talked of how Samsonite protects
Product manufacturing in China’s coastal regions has become increasingly challenging for manufacturers and buyers alike. Wages and rent have risen dramatically over the past five years while at the same time the economies of major buyers have suffered severe setbacks. This has put tremendous pressure on the small and medium businesses that make up the
We have long advocated for prompt China trademark registration. For companies that manufacture and export from China, registration of the English language trademark is essential. For companies that sell products and services in China, registration of the existing English language marks and the Chinese language marks for the product is essential. China now has the
Virtually every Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) our China lawyers see is defective. One of the things that most frequently makes them defective is that they call for disputes to be resolved in a U.S. court. The problem is that Chinese courts do not enforce US court judgments and so even if the American company prevails
Your enemy won’t do you no harm Cause you’ll know where he’s coming from Don’t let the handshake and the smile fool ya Take my advice I’m only try’ to school ya From the song, Smiling Faces, by the Temptations You know how when you buy a new car, you immediately start seeing your same
Bombardier granted a ten year license to “a subsidiary of China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Corp. Ltd The Globe and Mail did a story, Bombardier to share railway technology with Chinese, on how Bombardier granted a ten year license of its tram technology to “a subsidiary of China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Corp.
When we first started this blog way back in 2006, we would constantly write how if you want to protect your IP in China, you have to register your IP in China. Our thesis was (and is) that if you don’t bother registering your IP in China, you really have no right to complain about
In Inside the Chinese Boom in Corporate Espionage, Bloomberg Businessweek tells the sorry tale of a U.S. company that claims a Chinese manufacturer stole its proprietary software for use in a Chinese wind turbine project. For someone who has worked in or with China for nearly twenty years, the response is a stifled yawn: the
A reporter called me the other day on the Apple-Proview trademark kerfuffle. She kept wanting me to give her a quote on what foreign companies should take away from this dispute and I kept parrying with her, unable to give her just one. I kept finding myself saying “it’s more complicated than that.” Let me
Just got my third email this week from someone who bought tens of thousands of dollars worth of “iPhones” from someone in China, only to receive fakes. All three emailers were so blinded by the idea of buying iPhones at ridiculously low prices that they did nothing to make sure the sellers were legitimate, which
