Beibehalten Ihrer IP Mappe

Durch Maarten Roos 

Um die ausschließlichen Rechte zu IP zu wahren, muß eine Organisation die Einheiten an der richtigen Stelle haben zum des anhaltenden Schutzes zu garantieren.

Zuerst von allen, muß jemand sichergehen, daß eingetragene IP Rechte ihre Gültigkeit beibehalten. Eingetragene Warenzeichen werden für 10 Jahre hintereinander registriert, so sollten Ausrichtungen vor dem Ende solch einer Gültigkeit Periode ausgedehnt sein. Nichtbeachten ergibt den Verlust aller ausschließlichen Rechte zum eingetragenen Warenzeichen. Gebiet Namen sind preiswert und einfach zu registrieren, aber eine Wartung Gebühr muß zahlend sein. Bewilligte Patente und Designs haben eine nicht-ausdehnbare Gültigkeit von 10 Jahren (für Design- und Gebrauchsmodellpatente) oder von 20 Jahren (für Erfindung) vom Anmeldetag, aber ein Rentenpapier muß jedes Jahr gezahlt werden, um anhaltende Gültigkeit sicherzustellen. Lesen Sie den Rest „des Schutzes gegen Durchführung: Wo man Ihre China IPR Strategie beginnt? Der Teil II“ oder geben eine Anmerkung bekannt

Durch Maarten Roos

The continued pervasiveness of counterfeiting in China is not only a problem of law, but also one of enforcement. While China’s laws and regulations conform to the agreement on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS) and other widely accepted international principles, certain parts of China’s protection mechanism have proven ineffective. Common examples are the high standards for criminal liability of counterfeiters, the high burden of evidence to prove bad faith registrations, and the difficulty to prove damages in civil proceedings. On the other hand, it is abundantly clear that the police, administrative authorities and courts often lack the resources, the knowledge or the determination to effectively combat infringements.

China’s own continuing development, and to a lesser extent international pressure, will gradually lead to improvements on the above issues, but this is not a process individual intellectual property (IP) owners can influence. Read the rest of “Protection vs. Enforcement: Where to start your China IPR Strategy? Part I” or post a comment

Having a meaningful footprint in China has become a strategic imperative for multinational companies from around the world. The attraction is China’s seemingly insatiable demand for products, services, capital and technology. George D. Martin, partner and chair of the Faegre & Benson China Practice, sees the current acquisition boom in China as the logical culmination of foreign investment trends that he first observed when practicing in Shanghai in the mid-1990s. Martin expects this M&A trend to continue. But in the years to come, he advises, it won’t be just foreign companies on the buy-side of cross-border M&A deals involving China.

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Sourcing to China can be cost effective, but if something goes wrong, it could have a dramatic effect on your bottom line — and negatively impact customer opinion of your business. Can we trust domestic producers and distributors to control quality with fervor equal to their pursuit of low wages? Cheap labor is the easy part; the quality thing is a much tougher nut to crack.

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By Rebecca A. Morgan

Sourcing to China can be cost effective, but if something goes wrong, it could have a dramatic effect on your bottom line — and negatively impact customer opinion of your business. Can we trust domestic producers and distributors to control quality with fervor equal to their pursuit of low wages? Cheap labor is the easy part; the quality thing is a much tougher nut to crack.A product recall is a very visible and expensive sign of a serious quality problem. The life threatening potential of some problems long ago led American government and producers to develop recall and reverse distribution systems.

For the most part we’ve become good at figuring out which product is at risk, where it went, and executing the recall process with limited harm to life. But lately faith in American product-based businesses has been shaken by the apparent lack of due diligence in assuring low-wage Chinese suppliers meet the same standards as our own. Read the rest of “Is Sourcing in China Safe?” or post a comment