China’s Lack Of IP Protection: Overrated. Overrated.
Many years ago, I attended a Seattle area High School basketball game between Roosevelt High School and Juanita High School. The big matchup was between two top 100 high school prospects, Marcus...
View ArticleHow To Buy Product From China.
The always helpful Quality Inspection Blog has a must-read post entitled, “Should you tell your China suppliers about your China price.” In the post, Renaud Anjoran, China quality control inspecter,...
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China NNN Agreements. Watching The Sausage Get Made.
Probably more than any other agreement, there is a conception out there that it is just fine to use an off the shelf NDA Agreement when dealing with China. Wrong…. At least as much as with any other...
View ArticleDo You Know What Your China Contract Says?
A potential client recently sent me a contract written in both Chinese and in English. The English portions were silent about the controlling language but the Chinese portion made crystal clear that...
View ArticleHow To Stop Your Chinese Supplier From Becoming Your Competitor.
Renaud Anjoran over at the Quality Inspection Tips blog recently wrote on “How your Chinese suppliers might become your competitors.” Anjoran provides some excellent suggestions for preventing your...
View ArticleChina Business Contracts: Getting Them Signed.
We recently did a set of tooling agreements for a client doing business in China and as a part of that, one of our China lawyers sent the client the following instructions on making sure those...
View ArticleChina Non Disclosure Agreements (NDA)– Don’t Leave Home Without One (Or Many)
Years ago, our Chinese lawyers used to get a fairly steady stream of panicked American callers who would call us a month or so after returning from China where they had showed their product, prototype...
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