CNN China correspondent Lara Farrar, just wrote an excellent story on China’s efforts to boost its intellectual property protection so as to better enable it to become an innovation-based economy. The article is entitled, “Keeping things safe: China aims to boost its intellectual property rights,” and it nicely highlights Beijing’s increasing emphasis on IP and [...]
A consultant friend of mine is leading a very large group of American businesses to China for a big exhibition. He is putting together a short manual for these businesses and he asked me to help put the bug into the ear of these businesses that they should not be ignoring China legal issues.
I [...]
Co-blogger Steve Dickinson is in the midst of working on a number of unusually complicated OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturing) agreements for American companies seeking to buy product from China. A few minutes ago, I received a cc’ed email from Steve to one of our clients, explaining what he has done so far on the client’s [...]
Stan Abrams over at China Hearsay has an excellent China post, entitled, “A Never-ending Supply of China Business Advice.“ The post starts out with Stan talking of how there has been so much written on how to do business in China and some of it is less than top-notch:
At the same time, a lot of this [...]
Very helpful post over on the Foreign Entrepreneurs in China blog, entitled, “36 Tips on How to Deal or Negotiate with your Chinese Suppliers.” I urge you to read the entire post, but I particularly liked the following (lucky) eight tips because they are important and yet not often enough discussed:
Not all good suppliers have [...]
One of my best friends from college, (General Counsel for America at The Japanese newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, AND the author of a truly excellent book on the Negro Leagues) sent me a fascinating FT.com article this morning, entitled, “Japan Finds There is More to Life Than Growth,” that poses the question as to whether Japan [...]
Had lunch the other day with a high tech client that does business all over the world, but mostly in emerging market countries with weak Intellectual property rights and protections, including China. I asked him what his company does to protect its IP and he said they use a “Swiss-Army Knife approach,” meaning they do [...]
Last week, China came out with some guidance as to how it is going to determine whether foriegn company acquisitions (M&A) endanger China’s national security and there have already been all sorts of articles speculating that this is going to mean a real crackdown on foreign acquisitions. I was going to wait a few weeks [...]
I have been working for years for a very experienced and very sophisticated client who manufactures and sells product in China. Many years ago, this company was doing incredibly well in a foreign country when, all of a sudden, its leading seller of its product cut my client loose because it had secretly developed its [...]
Had the chance the other day to speak with the father of a friend whose very large company was for many years involved in various mining ventures in China. This person confirmed what I had been hearing for years, that the entire “system” in China is rigged against foreign companies involved in this industry.
According to [...]