4 October 2021
WTO Dispute Settlement System in crisis: Can ad hoc members of the WTO Appellate Body be a solution?
The paralysis of the Appellate Body poses a danger for the survival of the WTO trade system. How could ad hoc members provide a…
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Category: Analysis
Announcements, activities and updates from the Swiss Chinese Law Association.
29 September 2021
International negotiation between Mexican and Chinese businesses: Why is it so difficult?
When concluding contracts in a Western “legal” culture, the parties normally write lengthy contracts with numerous clauses. Perhaps, this is to justify the legal…
22 September 2021
How feasible are WTO Joint Statement Initiatives?
Introduction In the recent years, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been subject to severe criticisms on account of its inability to conclude any…
13 September 2021
Protecting Trade Secrets is a Human Resource Issue
The protection of trade secrets lies not only in how many or which measures are adopted by companies to protect their secrets from being…
10 September 2021
Arb-Med-Arb: Save time and money in international commercial and intellectual property arbitration
Arb-Med-Arb could benefit cases where the parties have a mutual interest in preserving a longer-term continuing relationship. Peter Pettibone introduces this innovative technique.
25 August 2021
It’s Never Too Late to Start Being Reasonable: How to stop litigating and learn how to love mediation
Introduction Trade secrets protection clauses are often embedded in distribution contracts over the sale of technical parts for the manufacturing industry. Such clauses ought…
13 July 2021
The Rise of Preliminary Injunctions in Chinese Trade Secret Infringement Cases
Are preliminary injunctions making China safer for trade secrets?
8 July 2021
Brazil Joins the International Arbitration Trend
Even when parties in international negotiations agree on using a common language particular word may mean different things to different people. Giacomo Paro and…
14 June 2021
The New EU-China Investment Agreement: Implications for German companies doing business in China
The EU may have frozen its ratification of its Comprehensive Agreement on Investment with China. But what would it actually mean for German business…
8 June 2021
Protecting trade secrets in manufacturing agreements with Chinese suppliers
Lorenzo Biamonti explains what China's revised Anti-unfair Competition Law means for licensing intellectual property and trade secrets.