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Product Development Agreements Don’t Get No Respect

When someone emails one of our international manufacturing lawyers asking us what they should be considering to protect themselves when manufacturing overseas, we typically respond with something like the following: Our clients that manufacture product in China/Vietnam/Mexico/India/Thailand/Taiwan/Malysia (or wherever it is they are asking about) typically use us for some or all of the following

Trademarking a Sound in China

Trademarks are not limited to words or drawings and can include sensory marks such as colors, smells and sounds. In the US, the USPTO recognizes sounds as trademarks if the sounds make you think of a company’s product or service. MGM’s roaring lion, Homer Simpson’s D’OH, and 20th Century Fox’s fanfare are all famous sounds

Check Your China Registrations

I should have run this post earlier and talked about it as a New Year’s resolution, but it did not occur to me until I learned over the weekend that a Canadian company that thought it had a Chinese trademark didn’t really have that trademark at all. At least once a year, one of our

China Product Development: Manufacturing Rights are Key

Our international manufacturing lawyers are always being asked how to structure product development relationships with Chinese companies so the foreign buyer company actually ends up with the rights to the product that gets developed. This post addresses that issue. The key is to focus on manufacturing rights, rather than on intellectual property rights, especially when

China Manufacturing and Product Type Chaos

In the old days, purchasing products from China was relatively simple. The product was a basic “off the shelf’ product, such as white t-shirts, underwear, medical gauze, rubber gloves, tableware and similar. For that reason, specifications were set based on an internationally accepted standard. Neither party set the standards; the standards were set by the

How to Avoid Problems when Manufacturing Overseas

1. Sorry, But Overseas Factory Problems are Likely YOUR Fault The genesis for this post is an excellent post written by Renaud Anjoran and a series of Linkedin comments on that post. The post is on Renaud’s Quality Inspection Blog and it’s called 28 Common Problems Chinese Suppliers Cause Importers. Renaud is the long-term owner of

It’s Perfectly Legal for Your Chinese Manufacturer to Copy Your Products

1. Chinese Manufacturers Will Copy and Sell Your Products; It’s What They Do Literally every single day this past week, the international IP lawyers at my law firm received at least one email from an American/European/Australasian company on how their Chinese manufacturer was selling their products at wholesale and/or at retail to others. These emails

Check Your International Registrations: Like Now

Every few months, one of my law firm’s international lawyers has to tell a client that the company or the IP the client thought it had somewhere in the world does not exist. About a decade ago — before China got so much better at spotting such things — we were retained to help a U.S. company

Roses Are Red, Publishers Without Contracts Are Blue

If you like to read for pleasure, you probably have a passing interest in the announcement every year of the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The prize giving is somewhat politicized, but it is indubitably global, and over the years many of us who enjoy reading have been introduced to new writers and

Manufacturing in Asia: Let’s Talk United States and Canada and Mexico and EU Trademarks

If you are going to manufacture your products in Asia, you need to register your brand name and your logo as a trademark in whatever Asian country you are doing your manufacturing. And as we have been saying for years and years, there are no ifs ands or buts about this. But in addition to the

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Product Development Agreements Don’t Get No Respect

Trademarking a Sound in China

Check Your China Registrations

China Product Development: Manufacturing Rights are Key

China Manufacturing and Product Type Chaos

How to Avoid Problems when Manufacturing Overseas

It’s Perfectly Legal for Your Chinese Manufacturer to Copy Your Products

Check Your International Registrations: Like Now

Roses Are Red, Publishers Without Contracts Are Blue

Manufacturing in Asia: Let’s Talk United States and Canada and Mexico and EU Trademarks

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Product Development Agreements Don’t Get No Respect

Trademarking a Sound in China

Check Your China Registrations

China Product Development: Manufacturing Rights are Key

China Manufacturing and Product Type Chaos

How to Avoid Problems when Manufacturing Overseas

It’s Perfectly Legal for Your Chinese Manufacturer to Copy Your Products

Check Your International Registrations: Like Now

Roses Are Red, Publishers Without Contracts Are Blue

Manufacturing in Asia: Let’s Talk United States and Canada and Mexico and EU Trademarks