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Lego Group sued two Chinese companies for manufacturing and selling products that were almost identical to ones from the Lego Friends range. The leading European toymaker claimed that the logo and the packaging used by the Chinese companies under the brand Bela constitute an infringement of the copyright in Lego Group’s logo and packaging.

The issue raised before the Court was whether products sold under the brand Bela infringe Lego’s copyrights, and in this direction, constitutes an act of unfair competition. On September 2017, the Shantou Intermediate People’s Court ruled in...

E-Commerce is a hot topic, and hence already widely discussed. This Seminar offers the opportunity, to not only learn about e-Commerce from a business point of view, but moreover find out about crucial aspects and challenges of e-Commerce from the perspective of Law.

Topic 1: Legal problems In the Chinese e-commerce market
- Entry models into the Chinese e-Commerce market
- Legal issues when entering the Chinese e-Commerce market
- IPR Protection
- Take Down-Procedure of online shops

Topic 2: E-Commerce Platforms like Tmall and...

With the development and usage of World Wide Web, mobile internet and mobile phones, the Chinese E-Commerce market got an enormous growth. According to “Chinese E-Commerce Market Data Monitoring Report 2016”, the E-Commerce transaction amount reached 22.97 trillion RMB in 2016.

For both Chinese and international enterprises, to join this market is a trend but also a necessity. As one of the mainly path for entering E-Commerce market, the meaning of domain name registration is therefore getting more and more important.

Worldwide exist 330 million registered domain names...

On December 11, 2017, the first German-Chinese-Business Dialogue of our Frankfurt partner law firm BLUEDEX took place in Tower 185 . The event marked the beginning of our joint cooperation.

Future events with German-Chinese-commercial relations will follow soon. The first event was a great success with about 30 participants from companies, banks and insurance companies.

The following persons have submitted:

· Daniel Albrecht - German lawyer , located in China: German-Chinese labor law issues

· Marco Mezger - German entrepreneur in China / Asia:...

At Friday night, November 24th 2017, Starke Managing Counsel Daniel Albrecht, was delighted to be a guest of the ILF Frankfurt Alumni meeting in Beijing, China. The Institute for Law and Finance (ILF) is a center for academic excellence in teaching and research. It was established as a non-profit foundation in 2002 by Goethe University Frankfurt am Main with the support of many prominent institutions. Leading commercial banks and international law firms, the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the City of Frankfurt and the State of Hesse, as well as the European Central Bank and...

The 2017 Global Intellectual Property Ecology Congress was held in Beijing on November 18, organized jointly by IPRdaily and Capital Intellectual Property Services Association. Theme of this Event was “Establish the new partnership between Intellectual property agencies under ’One Belt and One Road’ initiative”.

Topics like new opportunities for IP, Ideas of IP cooperation under “One Belt and One Road” initiative; new future for IP, IP+Technology; IP capitalism, IP+Finance were discussed by the participants. GIPC 2017 invited 800 industrial elites from more than 300 companies of 15...

At 21st November 2017, Starke Managing Counsel Daniel Albrecht joined a working breakfast with the President of the European Patent office in the NUO Hotel of Beijing. As the patent office for Europe, EPO is an intergovernmental organisation which supports innovation, competitiveness and economic growth across Europe. The core activity of EPO is the search and examination of patent applications and the grant of European patents, while also providing patent information and training services. The organization works in close co-operation with the patent offices of European Union member states...

We are proud to announce that our Managing Counsel Daniel Albrecht have been successfully chosen as a winner of a 2018 International Advisory Experts Award. He won the award as:

Corporate Law Lawyer of the Year in China

International Advisory Experts is a global alliance of well-established and experienced legal, financial and consulting firms that are committed to providing clients with specialist solutions for their international business requirements.

The group currently has experts from over 140 jurisdictions and...

The AUSTRIA CONNECT Greater China 2017 took part from October 26 to 28th in Shanghai. The AUSTRIA CONNECT is a platform for networking with national and international participants to meet international experts, exchange ideas with fellow business people and talk to ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA office heads from the Greater China region. The conference was co-sponsored by go-international , a shared export-initiative of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy and the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber.

The motto of the annual conference was "Innovation, Opportunity and...

Switzerland Chamber of Commerce, SwissCham Beijing, together with the Israel Chamber of Commerce, IsCham , hosted a seminar with the title The Art of E-commerce: Your way into China on October 26th at IBCC- Israeli Business and Cultural Center at 798.

“15.5% of all retail sales, amounting to $752 billion, were transacted online last year — up 26.2% year-on-year.” ---China’s National Bureau of Statistics
“Over 500 million people reportedly engaged in online shopping in China in 2016. By 2020, it is estimated that e-commerce sales in China will surpass those of the...

IP in China and Beyond. At Friday, October 20, 2017 the International Trademark Associaton (INTA) hosted an seminar for young practitioners and trademark administrators at the China IP Training Center in Beijing (北京上地西街信息路6号环岛东南角). The seminar was hosted for young practitioners and trademark Aaministrators with less than five years of professional experience, or professionals with more experience who are accompanied by a young practitioner. The speakes gave an overview about the US, EU and Chinese trademark system and gave also practical advises about this topics. Starke took part at the...

On Thursday, October 12th, the Associatiof the German Automobile Industry (VDA) organized the second product safety day in China. Discussions included the legal framework of the recall campaigns of vehicles, before and after accidents. AQSIQ officials also reported on how to interpret new standards (for example GB / T 34402-2017) on the safety of vehicles in China, and specialists from the German automotive industry showed ways in which product safety measures can be implemented in the production process and how important herefore product saftey officers are. 130 experts from the...