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Protecting your IP with an Asia Strategy: China Plus One is Getting Real

Had a great discussion with a bunch of my law firm’s international lawyers the other day regarding how so many of our clients are expanding in Asia beyond China and how so many of them now have an Asia strategy, of which China is just a part We then talked of how this has changed

Know Your Source When Manufacturing Overseas

How to find the right supplier for your product manufacturing.

New AD/CVD Petition: Snow Throwers from China and Organic Soybean Meal from India

We are still within the first 100 days of President Biden’s administration, and international trade has taken a far lower profile than in President Trump’s first 100 days. Though many are grateful that President Biden has avoided the inflammatory trade rhetoric and the unleashing of wave after wave of tariffs by the Trump Administration, many

China Manufacturing Agreements: Why Ours Are In Chinese, Flat Out

Had a nice conversation with a potential client last week. Company has a great new product it wants made in China. Like many companies starting out in China, this one is in the process of shopping for its China lawyers and my firm was one of four suggested to it by its regular corporate counsel.

International Manufacturing Contracts: Know These Nine Things

Our international manufacturing lawyers get a steady stream of emails from (mostly American/European/Australasian) companies wanting to sue their overseas manufacturers. Depending on the country, we typically respond by asking the potential client whether it has a written OEM Agreement with their manufacturer, whether that agreement is in the language of the country in which the

China NNN Agreements: The Initial Questions We Ask

If it seems we have been writing often about China NNN Agreements, you would be right. We are doing so because we have had a troubling increase in companies coming to us after having lost their IP to their Chinese counter-party (usually their Chinese manufacturer) because the NNN Agreements they used were worthless or even

International Product Development Contracts: The Questions We Ask

We often write on how companies outsourcing their product manufacturing oversees typically need an NNN Agreement, an OEM Agreement, and their trademarks registered in the country in which they are doing their manufacturing. For most companies seeking to manufacture product in a foreign country, those three are enough. But for companies that do not have

China Contracts: Email Not Usually Included

The international dispute resolution lawyers at my law firm are frequently contacted by American/European companies seeking our help in pursuing Chinese companies for providing “bad product.” We turn down a whole slew of them because because of our potential client’s low likelihood of success. We typically do not want to pursue these claims because the

China Contract Drafting Scams: From Bad to Much Worse

Last week, in So You Think You Have a China WFOE or Joint Venture or Trademark: Do You Though?, I wrote about foreign companies that had been duped into believing that their IP or their Chinese legal entity (typically either a WFOE or a Joint Venture (JV)) had been registered in China when, in fact,

Don’t Make These Mistakes When Buying Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Brokers

In my last post regarding PPE, I discussed the normalization of the Chinese N95 mask market, the increasing insanity of the Malaysian nitrile glove market, and other market forces at work, including limitations based on shipping container shortages and financing troubles. In this post I will provide some additional insights our international PPE lawyers have

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Protecting your IP with an Asia Strategy: China Plus One is Getting Real

Know Your Source When Manufacturing Overseas

New AD/CVD Petition: Snow Throwers from China and Organic Soybean Meal from India

China Manufacturing Agreements: Why Ours Are In Chinese, Flat Out

International Manufacturing Contracts: Know These Nine Things

China NNN Agreements: The Initial Questions We Ask

International Product Development Contracts: The Questions We Ask

China Contracts: Email Not Usually Included

China Contract Drafting Scams: From Bad to Much Worse

Don’t Make These Mistakes When Buying Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Brokers

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Protecting your IP with an Asia Strategy: China Plus One is Getting Real

Know Your Source When Manufacturing Overseas

New AD/CVD Petition: Snow Throwers from China and Organic Soybean Meal from India

China Manufacturing Agreements: Why Ours Are In Chinese, Flat Out

International Manufacturing Contracts: Know These Nine Things

China NNN Agreements: The Initial Questions We Ask

International Product Development Contracts: The Questions We Ask

China Contracts: Email Not Usually Included

China Contract Drafting Scams: From Bad to Much Worse

Don’t Make These Mistakes When Buying Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Brokers