Acquisition is usually the domain of the big boys, but smaller exporters can certainly benefit from taking on another business abroad. Here’s how to make the process as smooth as possible.
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Protecting your brand or trade name is now more important than ever. Registration of a domain name, as with the registration of a business name or company names, does not give a right to use that name with impunity. As shocking as that may sound, even a natural person has no absolute right to use [...]
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It’s rare to find an exporter that sells the exact same product or service in their international markets in the exact same way they do in Australia. Here’s how to customise your exports to suit your destination markets for better sales
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and IP Australia have issued a warning to trade mark owners to be wary of any organisations looking to charge for intellectual property (IP) services, following a number of complaints about a fake organisation seeking payment for IP. IP Australia has logged complaints from trade mark owners who [...]
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Any successful business strategy needs an exit plan, every contract needs to address the issue of ‘What do we do if one of us breaches the contract?’ All contracts, but most importantly where the parties are in different countries, should address four important issues: the place where disputes are to be decided; the courts of [...]
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Last time we looked at the Stern Hu case. Some five weeks after being arrested, Rio Tinto executive Hu has now been charged with “using improper means to obtain commercial secrets about our country’s steel business”. Does the Stern Hu case give you something to think about? If you are dealing with a company exporting [...]
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Conflict is challenging at the best of times but what happens when disputes cross international borders? Settling an international dispute starts with prevention but there are also non-adversarial cures for disagreements
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The Chinese curse, “may you live in interesting times” seems counter-intuitive to Western ears. After all we are constantly bombarded with the notion that our lives need to be ‘interesting’ to be ‘happy and satisfying’. Throughout Chinese history, a happy life was predictable, where there was no war, famine or arbitrary rule. In short, where [...]
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