Поддержание вашего портфолиа IP

Maarten Roos 

Поддерживать эксклюзивные права к IP, организация должна иметь механизмы in place для того чтобы гарантировать продолжаемое предохранение.

Первым делом из, кто-то должно обеспечить что зарегистрированные права IP поддерживают их ценностьь. Товарные знаки зарегистрированы на 10 лет одновременно, таким образом зарегистрирования должны быть продленны перед законцовкой такого периода ценностьи. Отказ сделать так приведет к в потере всех эксклюзивные права к товарному знаку. Имена домена дешевы и легки зарегистрировать, но пошлина за поддержание должна быть paid. Даренные патенты и конструкции будут иметь non-extendable ценностьь 10 лет (для патентов конструкции и общего назначения модели) или 20 лет (для вымысла) от даты опиловки, но аннуитет необходимо оплатить each year для того чтобы обеспечить продолжаемую ценностьь. Прочитайте остальнои «предохранения против Принуждение: Где начать вашу стратегию Китая IPR? Часть II» или вывешивает комментарий

Maarten Roos

Продолжаемый pervasiveness подделывать в Китае not only проблемой закона, но также одним принуждения. 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