Volume 1 - Number 6 | September 2006
| China’s Trademark Laws — Simple and Effective By Dan Harris The media loves to write about China’s failure to protect foreign company intellectual property. But those articles can be misleading. They often fail to state whether the foreign company actually registered its IP in China at all, and they nearly always fail to distinguish between the various types of IP eligible for protection. Both of these shortcomings are meaningful. |
| Multiple Reasons for Optimism: China’s IP Picture Continues to Evolve By Ernest V. Linek Watch carefully as China now prepares new policy guidelines, expected by the end of this year, for its semiconductor industry. Policy-makers and economists say, no doubt correctly, that China has identified semiconductors as a core part of its high-tech and overall business strategy. Tax exemptions and tax reductions will be major components of the emergent strategy, as will direct subsidies for R&D. Such tactical economic initiatives are expected to affect foreigners, including American expert technicians and corporate partners, as well as domestic interests. |
| Akin Gump to Open Beijing Office By Amanda Bronstad Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld is planning to open an office in Beijing within the next 60 to 90 days, according to the firm's chairman, R. Bruce McLean. |
| Holding the Line in Hong Kong By Anna Palmer Almost 1 year into his tenure as Hong Kong secretary for justice, Wong Yan Lung talked with China Trade Law Report's ALM affiliate Legal Times reporter Anna Palmer on Sept. 11 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington. The 43-year-old former barrister answered questions about the status of the legal system after it transferred to the basic law of Hong Kong in 1997, Hong Kong’s relationship with China and the larger international legal community, and U.S. lawyers entering the country’s legal market. What follows is an edited transcript of that interview. |
| Milbank Tweed Opens Fourth Asian Office Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has opened its ninth office, in Beijing. The firm currently has 40 attorneys in Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo who practice New York and English law. |
| Vinson & Elkins Opens Hong Kong Office By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys Vinson & Elkins has expanded its practice in China by opening an office in Hong Kong, giving the Houston-based firm four offices in Asia. |
