For many years, businesses questioned the merits of filing intellectual property (IP) rights in China because of concerns of widespread counterfeiting and limited enforcement and practical protections. While those historic concerns were not entirely unfou... See more
In Part I of this series, posted here, we reported on certain amendments to Trade Mark Law of the People’s Republic of China. In this article, we continue outlining some of the other important amendments. Voluntary cancellations now carry a one-year re-fi... See more
On 26 June 2026, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress adopted the fifth amendment to the Trade Mark Law of the People’s Republic of China. The revised law, expected to take effect on 1 January 2027, introduces a number of significant c... See more
A quarter-century ago, when the Twin Towers still stood, Rudolph Giuliani was still a largely rational mayor, and ’N Sync sold out the Garden, the media tycoon Michael Bloomberg climbed out of his car on a grimy, tumbledown stretch of the Williamsburg wat... See more
If there’s one thing that current and previous mayors can agree on, it’s that they hate sidewalk sheds, those ungainly assemblies of metal poles and splintery plywood that buildings wrap around their ground floors whenever they need some work done. I hate... See more
