Category: International  
China Law Blog - January 01, 2012
The following is a guest post by Ted Folkman, the force behind the Letters Blogatory blog, of which I am a long-time fan. Letters Blogatory has a very tight (and for me, very interesting focus). It "covers int
China Law Blog - December 31, 2011
Kudos to my basketball-challenged friend over at the always excellent (and often retrograde) What About Paris Blog for alerting me to the China in Africa: The Real St
China Law Blog - December 30, 2011
Just got back from a family vacation in Puerto Rico. While there, I saw a rental car company called "Target." This company had the same logo as the Target stores so common on the U.S. mainland. Well of course that g
Canadian Trademark Blog - December 29, 2011
In McCallum Industries Ltd. v. HJ Heinz Co. Australia Ltd., the Federal Court dismissed the applicant’s action to expunge the respondent’s trademark under s. 57(1) of the
China Law Blog - December 29, 2011
My law firm does not handle visa matters in China as it typically is not worthwhile to pay lawyer rates for this. The other day, I got an email from a loyal reader I know, asking me how she could go to work for a new China employer, without having to relinquish her existing work visa. I told her
China Law Blog - December 27, 2011
I just returned from a delightful family vacation in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where we got around mostly by taxi. Both my kids speak Spanish fairly well and I am totally willing to fake it. One of the things I quickly learned from our conversations with the taxi drivers is that there is a big split
China Law Blog - December 26, 2011
I am of the view that I can understand about 50% of a country by going into five of its grocery stores and by watching five basketball games of its best players. I have a friend who is a dancer and she says she can understand a country by watching its people dance. I know basketball and I know fo
China Law Blog - December 25, 2011
The Financial Times' FDIintelligence site [subscription required] just came out with its list of the top ten Asian cities for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 2012 and three China cities made the
China Law Blog - December 25, 2011
Interesting (and blisffully short and to the point) PowerPoint on luxury goods over at the The China Observer Blog, entitled, "Eight Trends to Watch in China's Luxury Sector."  What I fou
China Law Blog - December 24, 2011
Just read a post at the Entrepreneurship as an Adventure blog, entitled, "
China Law Blog - December 23, 2011
The following is a guest post by Robert Cain, who I met a few months ago at the US-China Film Co-Production Summit
China Law Blog - December 22, 2011
I am in the process of writing an article for a leading publication on the things I am seeing that tell me China's economy is cooling. The statistics from China seem to be saying everything is just fine, but man, all I can tell you is that my firm has been absolutely inundated with matters that t
China Law Blog - December 21, 2011
This is part II of a series of an occasional series of posts we will be running here on what our lead China lawyer, Steve Dickinson, is seeing of China's real estate market, based on his living "on the ground" in Qingdao. Here it is: By:
China Law Blog - December 20, 2011
By:  Steve DickinsonI have been engaged in a friendly debate with a number of economists about the date when the Chinese real estate market "bubble" will finally burst. The opinions of the economists vary. Some b
International Family Law - December 19, 2011