Primer on Foreign Investment Enterprises and Protection of Intellectual Property in China

As multi-national enterprises move into the world's largest and most challenging market, new expertise will be required to master the legal, business, and strategic issues they will face. Daniel C.K. Chow, an American attorney with on-the-ground experience in China' has made a valuable addition to the knowledge base required for these operations.This volume takes an overall appraoch of the large foreign investor with a long term business plan for China and proposes a basic corporate structure for this investor. The structure involves a series of wholly foreign owned enterprises, joint ventures, and representative offices all under the control and ownership of one or more investment holding companies. Each entity in this structure is discussed individually and as part of an overall corporate conglomerate.The volume also examines the protection of intellectual property as a basic corporate business function that should be part of the initial planning process. The author shows how prior planning and proper perspective can help avoid serious problems later. The author also examines strategies for protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights against the growing threat of commercial piracy an counterfeiting.As China's entry into the W.T.O. becomes effective and more business embrace the prospect of Pacific expansion, this volume should become more and more useful to practicing lawyers, businesses, and academics interested in China's continuing economic development.