起诉中国公司的产品责任
在过去几年中，我所在的律师事务所的国际争端解决团队（我是其中一员）看到，涉及个人和公司以及律师希望就中国制造的产品伤人而起诉中国公司的案件有了极大的增加。来到我们律师事务所的案件通常涉及以下内容之一
如何从中国获得免费产品
在过去的一周里，我每天都收到至少一封来自一家外国公司的电子邮件，他们向中国的一家公司支付了钱，但实际上没有得到任何回报。这方面的术语是偷窃。这种事情是中国公司给的，为什么最近如此盛行？
中国员工因拖欠工资而提起诉讼
中国假定雇主比他们的雇员更强大，因此它明确地偏向于雇员。例如，法律不仅允许雇员通过发出离职通知来单方面终止其劳动合同（除非有一个非常有限的例外情况），雇员还可以终止其劳动合同，并要求获得法定离职金。
Force Majeure in the Time of Coronavirus
Way back in the pre-coronavirus days — October 30-2019 — in Do Not Let Force Majeure be a Major Force In Your China Contract, we did a post warning of force majeure provisions in contracts with Chinese companies. That post began with the following warning/joke; Pull out and look at your contract with your Chinese
Pay Close Attention to California’s New IoT Law
A few days ago, California passed the first U.S. information security law specifically targeting the Internet of Things (or IoT). We wrote about the law, SB-327, about a year ago when it first passed. SB-327 has gotten relatively little press compared to California’s other pioneering data protection statute, the California Consumer Privacy Act. But when it
Illegal Transshipping/False Country of Origin — Help Us Help You Get Rich
Earlier this year, “Univar USA Inc. paid U.S. $62.5 Million to Resolve Allegations that it Evaded $36 Million in Antidumping Duties on Imported Chinese Saccharin.” My law firm profited handsomely from this case because we brought it to the government’s attention and then assisted on it. The United States Department of Justice describes this case
Foreigners Win 68% of Cases in Beijing IP Court: How to Use This to YOUR Advantage
Many foreign IP owners doing business in or with China do not believe the Chinese court system works. They or their foreign lawyers therefore tend to choose foreign law and jurisdiction in their contracts. When this results in contracts that are unenforceable against a Chinese party, everyone blames the Chinese. The prophesy about the lack
良好的合同是关键，腐败是可耻的
前几天收到一封来自一家规模不错的公司的电子邮件，询问与泰国、台湾、印度尼西亚和马来西亚等国家的公司签订制造合同的好处。邮件的内容是这样的（我说 "什么 "是因为我把它改了，所以没有人能够识别它）：我是
China’s Intellectual Property Courts: A Procedural Overview
— Protecting Innovation in an Innovative Way: What are China’s IP Courts? After decades of engagement between US and Chinese legal experts on reforming IP protection in mainland China, Chinese IP courts were first pioneered in 2014 in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou (see the National People’s Congress (NPC) Decision of Establishing Intellectual Property Courts in