Om de exclusieve rechten op IP te handhaven, moet een organisatie de mechanismen op zijn plaats hebben om voortdurende bescherming te waarborgen.

Eerst en vooral, moet iemand ervoor zorgen dat de geregistreerde IP rechten hun geldigheid handhaven. De handelsmerken worden geregistreerd 10 jaar tegelijkertijd, dus zou de registratie vóór het einde van zulk een geldigheidsperiode moeten worden uitgebreid. Het nalaten zal dit te doen in het verlies van alle exclusieve rechten op het handelsmerk… resulteren

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De voortdurende doordringendheid van het vervalsen in China is niet alleen een probleem van wet, maar ook één van handhaving. Terwijl de wetten en de verordeningen van China met de overeenkomst over commerciële aspecten van intellectuele-eigendomsrechten (REIZEN) en andere wijd toegelaten internationale principes in overeenstemming zijn, zijn bepaalde delen van de beschermingsmechanisme van China ondoeltreffend gebleken. 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…

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The challenges ahead

By Nick Debnam & George Svinos, KPMG

Luxury retailing in China clearly presents tremendous opportunities, but also risks and challenges. In addition to heightening competition as is common among emerging markets, the most significant and relevant of challenges for luxury brands concern Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regulations, the time frame for a return on investment, low luxury brand awareness, booming Chinese tourism and limited retail infrastructure.

• IPR regulations

According to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing the piracy rate in China remains one of the highest in the world and, on average, 20 percent of consumer products are counterfeit. Even domestic companies are troubled by piracy, with a recent study by the Ministry of Information Industry finding that 37 percent of Chinese companies suffered from such problems. Read the rest of “Luxury Brands in China: Part IV” or post a comment

By Andrew Hupert 

Just before Chinese New Year, I was in a Shanghai sales meeting where the owner of a European company was discussing post-holiday sales projections. The talk was all “new, innovative, out of the box”, but the walk was all about doing the same old thing only bigger and/or cheaper. I’ve been to this rodeo before. Some of the expensive new marketing initiatives put into place 6 months ago were about to whither and die.

If you are a straight-arrow manager trying some “out of the box” thinking in China you are going to need a strategy for gauging and recognizing success in the early stages. Most of all you need to avoid squandering your investment by pulling the plug too early.

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China has been trying to stem an ever growing trade surplus, manage domestic inflation, move development from the coastal areas to the inland areas and decrease its dependence on heavily polluting industries.

Because of these objectives, manufacturing in China is becoming more expensive as China adds in hidden (and sometimes not so hidden) costs into the sourcing equation. 

Here are the top 4 reasons you can expect costs to continue to rise in 2008:

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