By Steve Dickinson
Chinese employment law presents many challenges to U.S. employers. One issue that causes much confusion is the proper use of non-compete agreements with Chinese employees. Before China adopted its Labor Contract Law (“LCL”) in 2008, it was common for foreign employers to require all of their Chinese employees to enter into non-compete agreements. [...]
Leslie Forman over at the Beijing Corporate Training Blog did an interesting post the other day regarding a conversation she had with a Chinese lawyer on creativity. The post is entitled, “Creativity in the Context of Chinese Legal Work” and it relates how this Chinese lawyer insisted Chinese legal work mandates against creativity. [...]
Interesting guest post by Arie Schreier over at the China Solved Blog. The post is entitled, “How Not to Choose a Business Partner in China,” and reduced to its essence, it is saying to pick your partner for business reasons.
But it makes for a much better story than that as it relays [...]
This is a guest post by Michael Carrier, professor of law at Rutgers University and author of the book, Innovation for the 21st Century: Harnessing the Power of Intellectual Property and Antitrust Law
In my recent book Innovation for the 21st Century: Harnessing the Power of Intellectual Property and Antitrust Law (Oxford), I explore the [...]
A domestic products liability lawyer friend of mine sent me an article essentially saying how Chinese factories do not care about quality, Chinese factories will try to get away with whatever they can because they are run by evil people, these things are getting worse, and Americans who buy from Chinese factories are stupid. I [...]
Every few months, my law firm gets contacted by a Western company that wants us to pursue a bad faith trademark case against a company in China. Typically, the Western company wants to pursue litigation against a Chinese company for having trademarked what the Western company perceives to be their tradename or trademark. These cases [...]
This post is very much based on Steve Dickinson’s article in this month’s China Economic Review, entitled, “New Image, New Error.“
With China being hailed as the world economy’s savior, its government has concludedthis is its century. The West is irrelevant and China will lead a vanguard of new players — and the game will be [...]
For the last few months, we have been sounding the theme that China is becoming less beholden to foreign enterprises. We have been saying that the direct corollary of that is China’s stepping up enforcement of its laws against foreign enterprises. At the beginning of this year, CLB’s own Steve Dickinson wrote an [...]
Silk Road International Blog is one of my favorite blogs. It is written by David Dayton, an “international procurement and project management” specialist with more than twenty years of Asia experience. What I like so much about his blog is that it so often brings us up close and personal and it just tells [...]