In China, the Chinese language version of your brand can be just as important as the English language version, as wine maker Penfolds discovered.
Penfolds was, until recently, locked in a protracted legal dispute with a businessman who registered the company’s Chinese name before it did.
Failing to properly secure your brand in China can be a very expensive mistake, as the experience of computer giant Apple shows.
The California-based technology company was forced to buy the iPad trade mark from another company for US$60 million after a court ruled it did not have the rights to use it in China.
When Warren Lucas discovered that a manufacturer in China was illegally copying his portable sawmills he decided to take action.
He took legal action in a Chinese court and won his case against manufacturer SSML for infringing on the patent owned by his family business, Lucas Mill.
When Tori Best tried to register the name and logo of her Melbourne-based dairy company in China, she found that someone else had got there first.
Someone else had already registered the name Farmer Brown’s Dairy Company as well as the company’s flying cow logo with the China Trade Mark Office, or CTMO.
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File for IP protection before launching a crowdfunding campaign and consider your global IP strategy like Byron Bay father-son duo Stuart and Cedar Anderson, inventors behind Australia’s most successful crowdfunding campaign to date, The Flow Hive.
Failing to properly secure your brand in China can be a very expensive mistake, as the experience of computer giant Apple shows.
Stormseal inventor and Managing Director, Matthew Lennox, has accelerated his idea for a product that provides huge relief for storm victims and their rescuers and insurers through government funding and securing intellectual property (IP) protection.
