By Steve Dickinson Our China data privacy lawyers have been getting a steady stream of questions regarding our recent post, China’s New Cybersecurity Program: NO Place to Hide, regarding the Chinese government’s rolling out a new system for monitoring company data. … [Read more...]
How to set up a receiving inspection: Checklist, procedure, reporting form
By Renaud Anjoran I have written extensively about pre-shipment inspections (before, during, or after production), always from the perspective of the buyer checking what a supplier is doing; but I noticed that I haven’t covered receiving inspections (also called incoming quality inspections). However, that’s a really important topic, so … [Read more...]
China’s electronics industry eagerly awaits the end of the trade war
By Polly Chen China’s electronics industry is currently the world’s largest. But the trade war has hit this industry hard. Exhibitors at this year’s Hong Kong Electronics Fair reported fewer international buyers than previous years. Importers from the US are looking for suppliers from Vietnam, Indonesia and other Asian countries outside … [Read more...]
How to protect your molds and tooling when manufacturing overseas, Part 2
By Dan Harris In part 1 of this series, we discussed how the increasing complexity of products being made overseas has led to a corresponding increase in the complexity of product molds and how our international manufacturing attorneys increasingly must draft country-specific contracts to protect our client’s IP within those molds. … [Read more...]
How to protect your molds and tooling when manufacturing overseas, Part 1
By Dan Harris This is the first part of what will eventually be a four part series on protecting your molds and/or your tooling from your overseas manufacturer. With so many companies moving their manufacturing from China, this has become a very important topic, for two reasons. First, we are seeing many companies losing their molds and/or … [Read more...]