All companies established in China, including foreign-invested enterprises, are obligated to follow certain procedures in accordance with China’s Company Law in order to wind up and dissolve their operations. In recent years, a number of foreign investors in China have abandoned their Chinese operations and fled the country, leaving behind bank loans and other unpaid debt and failing to pay salaries to their Chinese workers.

Owners of popular brands in China and Taiwan often fall pray to “cyber squatters” who register domain names related to their known products and services, and expect to be paid for transferring or renting domain registrations. Sometimes cybersquatters even register confusingly similar domain names just to divert or disrupt the business of a competitor.

In a move widely expected to speed up approvals of patent applications, Taiwan’s government has announced that evidence of foreign patent applications may be submitted when applying for invention patents in Taiwan.

The government of Taiwan has announced that it will seek to join the Government Procurement Agreement (“GPA”), a plurilateral agreement organized and administered by the World Trade Organization that ensures fairness of competition between domestic and multinational enterprises bidding on government procurement, te

For this Pamir Update, we have prepared a list of frequently asked questions (FAQ) about the arbitration process in Taiwan.  The FAQ discusses and answers the following questions: