In-House Counsel: It’s Not China’s Patent Laws, It’s The Enforcement
Inside Counsel Magazine (formerly Corporate Times) is conducting an on-line poll right now asking whether “China’s patent laws do enough to protect intellectual property?” [link no longer exists] Since...
View ArticleChina Patent Reform. When China is Good…..
Regular readers know that CLB generally does not like to write much about upcoming laws. There are three reasons for this. One, there are plenty of existing laws about which to write and those, for...
View ArticleChina Outsourcing 101. Five Basics For Reducing Risk.
The other day we did an extremely long post on the legal issues of outsourcing. That post was based on an hour long speech I had just given at an International Association of Outsourcing Professionals...
View ArticleGetting A Patent In China. The China Patent Shuffle.
Kelly Spors, the Wall Street Journal’s spot on Q&A columnist on entrepreneurship and small business answered a question today on securing a China patent. The question asked of Ms. Spors by a U.S....
View ArticleChina Patents: More, More, More, How Do You Like It?
I did a short post the other day, based on a Wall Street Journal column, briefly discussing the pros and cons and the costs of securing China patents. China Hearsay did an excellent follow-up post on...
View ArticleChina Patents And Trademarks. Close The Barn Door Before The Pigs Are Gone.
Sorry for the farm analogy, but I just finished looking at my itinerary for an upcoming Iowa trip. Got a call the other day from a U.S. company furious about a competitor in China who had registered...
View ArticleChina Design Patents. Because They Work.
In 2012, the last year for which statistics are available, 657,582 design patent applications were filed in China – more than in any other nation in the world. In fact, more design patent applications...
View ArticleI Also Have Nothing To Say On The Recent Schneider IP Decision
China Hearsay has a post up entitled, “Why I Haven’t Posted on the Schneider Patent Decision,” explaining why he had been avoiding saying anything about that decision. I actually got a couple emails...
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