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5 Key IP Protection Approaches when Manufacturing in Asia

December 16, 2022 by Renaud Anjoran

5 Key IP Protection Approaches when Manufacturing in Asia

How do you protect your product IP and business interests when doing your product development and manufacturing in Asian countries? This is a common concern for entrepreneurs, hardware startups, and SMEs, and rightly so...after all, you don't want to go through the hard work of developing your new product idea and bringing it to market over many months only to be undercut by copycats. You also want to control your project, and not have suppliers taking advantage of you if they have too much … [Read more...]

Filed Under: IP Protection Tagged With: china copycats, IP security, manufacturing agreement, NNN agreement, product development agreement, tips for importers

What to avoid when creating your NNN agreement [Podcast]

January 14, 2022 by Adrian Leighton

What to avoid when creating your NNN agreement

In this episode… NNN agreements are important legal tools importers should use to protect their IP. Renaud chats with Adrian about what they are and some of the common errors made with them that could leave you with an unenforceable agreement and no protection at all! First off, though, they kick off by examining the increasing Covid cases and their effect on supply chains in China as of mid-January 2022...   Just hit the play button to start listening..! Listen to the episode … [Read more...]

Filed Under: IP Protection Tagged With: IP protection, legal risks, NNN agreement

4 Situations When Your Product IP May Be Threatened [Podcast]

November 19, 2021 by Adrian Leighton

4 Situations When Your Product IP May Be Threatened [Podcast]

In this episode… "Who's looking at my product idea in order to copy it and sell it in competition with my original?" This is a question that keeps hardware startups and entrepreneurs awake at night, as they know their innovative product idea is going to be jealously viewed by copycats from all kinds of places. Actually, these copycats usually come from both within and outside of your supply chain, and they can copy you either early on in the new product launch process or after your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: IP Protection Tagged With: intellectual property, legal risks, minimizing risks, podcast

Developing a New Product? Think of Information Security Management.

September 6, 2021 by Renaud Anjoran

Developing a New Product? Think of Information Security Management.

More and more prototyping companies who routinely work for large companies have gotten certified to ISO 27001:2013 (*). If you have been scratching your head about what this standard about information security management entails and what it means for you, let me try and help clarify this topic. Here are three aspects that you probably want to check: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: IP Protection, New Product Development Tagged With: developing new products, information security, intellectual property, IP protection, ISO 27001, new product design, prototyping companies


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