Register Today! China has more than twice as many internet users as the United States has people and more than half a billion Chinese can now easily afford to buy music on their cellphones. By some estimates, China’s music industry is worth more than $10 billion and it generates around $1 billion in revenue a year. On Wednesday, March 30th at 5:30pm PT/ Thursday, March 31st at 8:30am CST (China Standard Time) Harris Bricken’s…

In part one of this series on self-enforcing contracts, Self-Enforcing Contracts: A Good Tool for Tough Markets, I wrote about how self-enforcing contracts can be so valuable when contracting with a company in a country with a less developed legal system. In this post, I will discuss how self-enforcing contracts work and the key provisions to put into such contracts. How does a self enforcing contract work? Take a standard contract for purchase of…

1. Draft Your Contract for the Applicable Country In How Not to be in China, we wrote about how companies are seeking to diversify their supply chains by moving some or all of their production to other countries. When entering into contracts in these new countries, the first question to ask is whether the new country in which you will be working has a legal system that provides effective contract enforcement. If the answer…

1. Draft Your Contract for the Applicable Country In How Not to be in China, we wrote about how companies are seeking to diversify their supply chains by moving some or all of their production to other countries. When entering into contracts in these new countries, the first question to ask is whether the new country in which you will be working has a legal system that provides effective contract enforcement. If the answer…

On February 26, 2021, the Coalition of American Manufaturers of Mobile Access Equipment, consisting of JLG Industries Inc. and Terex Corporation, filed antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) petitions against U.S. imports of certain mobile access equipment, which consists primarily of boom lifts, scissor lifts, material telehandlers, and subassemblies thereof, from China.  Mobile access equipment is used to lift persons, tools, equipment, materials, other cargo up in construction, warehouse, agricultural, and facility maintenance applications. Although…

I recently spoke with an in-house IP lawyer at a high-tech hardware client that does business all over the world, mostly in emerging market countries with weak intellectual property rights and protections, including China. When it comes to protecting their IP, this company employs what he calls a “Swiss Army Knife approach,” meaning they do “everything and anything” they can do. Specifically: Don’t do business with bad people or bad companies, who are far more…

Yesterday, in Americans, Australians, British and Canadians Are Being Singled Out in China and I’ve Got Proof I wrote how the CCP singles out people for arrest on criminal charges based on their nationalities. In response to that post, I got the following email: I am an Australian citizen and you are right that we are being singled out for criminal prosecution in China now. We are also being singled out for other discriminations but…