Maintien de votre brochure d'IP

Par Maarten Roos 

Pour maintenir les droites exclusives à l'IP, une organisation doit avoir les mécanismes en place pour garantir la protection continue.

Tout d'abord, quelqu'un doit s'assurer que les droites enregistrées d'IP maintiennent leur validité. Des marques déposées sont inscrites à 10 années à la fois, ainsi les enregistrements devraient être prolongés avant la fin d'une telle période de validité. Le manque de faire ainsi aura comme conséquence la perte de toutes les droites exclusives à la marque déposée. Les noms de domaine sont bon marché et faciles pour s'enregistrer, mais des honoraires d'entretien doivent être payés. Les brevets et les conceptions accordés auront une validité non-extensible de 10 ans (pour des brevets de conception et de modèle d'utilité) ou de 20 ans (pour l'invention) de la date de classement, mais une annuité doit être payée tous les ans pour assurer la validité continue. Lisez le reste de « protection contre Application : Où commencer votre stratégie de la Chine IPR ? La partie II » ou signalent un commentaire

Par 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

By Alexander de Nerée

A drawback of my, in itself interesting profession, is that I encounter a lot of lying in my daily work. Contrary to popular believe it is not so much the lawyers that do the lying. Although I have to admit lawyers are generally not easily persuaded to part with information, let alone the truth, I prefer to think of what we do as skilful editing of the information to fit a certain version of the truth. No harm in that. That is what lawyers are paid to do.

But in order to edit the information, you will have to obtain the information first. And that is not as easy as it may sound. First there is the filter of the client’s hurt feelings that makes it difficult to obtain any relevant information. In its strong believe of the correctness and the fairness of its own position, the client filters out anything that appears to be in its disadvantage.

“They never complained about the quality of our products and now, out of the bleu, they want their money back and claim damages! That is unreasonable.” In itself  this is a good point which could legally be relevant but not if Read the rest of “Lying” or post a comment

“Private label products or services are typically those manufactured or provided by one company for offer under another company’s brand.” –Wikipedia. This is the name of the game for China and for the most part, the products you buy here in the United States are not really manufactured by the name on the label. In some instances most of the big box or clothing stores you frequent have an inventory almost entirely made up of their own products under their own brand or multiple unaffiliated brands. This is not just a game for the big boys, this can be accomplished with…

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By Alexander de Neree

Besides the human tragedy, there has always been a certain irony in the fact that the communist system has never been able to achieve its main goal: to bring prosperity to the masses.

More specifically in China, there first where the farmers that did not particularly benefited from the revolution that was undertaken in their name. And now, much to Beijing’s chagrin one imagines, one scandal after another regarding the maltreatment of workers hits the international press circuit.

But, help is underway. Starting January 1, 2008, the new labour contract law will come in force in China. Surprisingly it has many characteristics of the Dutch system which will give rise to some alarm among employers familiar with the Dutch system. Read the rest of “Workers’ paradise” or post a comment