IP (Intellectual Property)

Navigating the New Silk Road in intellectual property rights: Clyde & Co highlights China’s role

Elliot Papageorgiou, Yan Gong, Mark Devaney and Rob Deans.

Navigating the New Silk Road in intellectual property rights: Clyde & Co highlights China’s role

By James Brewer

As China pursues its Belt and Road initiative, spanning 66-plus countries, it is officially taking the protection of intellectual property rights extremely seriously.

Despite this, foreign businesses dealing with China, in sectors ranging from maritime to advanced IT, should be careful to protect themselves from infringements of...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/07/23/navigating-the-new-silk-road-in-intellectual-property-rights-clyde-co-highlights-chinas-role/

No ‘competitive devaluation’ in China, The efficacy of macroprudential policies

Commentary: No ‘competitive devaluation’ in China

By Mark Sobel in Washington

When the Trump administration asserts that China steals intellectual property, violates foreign investor rights, engages in wholesale subsidisation of the economy, and raises questions about industrial policy pursuant to ‘Made in China 2025’, it stands on solid ground. Assertions about ‘competitive devaluations’ by China, however, do not stand up to scrutiny. The renminbi’s decline primarily reflects a strong US economy...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/10/12/no-competitive-devaluation-in-china-the-efficacy-of-macroprudential-policies/