Legal Updates

Qualifications for Listing The basic conditions which have to be met as a prerequisite to the listing of equity Securities on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange are set out in Chapter 8 of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on…Read More

IP Newsletter, December 2006 The conviction of the first person in the world charged with using BitTorrent technology to infringe copyrighted materials was upheld recently by the Hong Kong High Court. In HKSAR v Chan Nai Ming, HCMA 1221/2005 [2006], Chan Nai Ming uploaded movies…Read More

IP Newsletter, January 2007 You bid on a project and presented your proposal. Later, they told you they decided to go another direction. Disappointed, you accept that you can’t win all the time. Then, you find your features incorporated into their project. They changed them…Read More

IP Newsletter, February 2007 Designers dread submitting proposals. Not only is time spent preparing proposals uncompensated, there are inevitably follow-up inquiries and additional uncompensated work required. And clients tend to think they can use concepts pitched without consent or credit given. After wrestling with issues…Read More

IP Newsletter, April 2007 Last month, we talked about the United States putting pressure on provincial and local government officials in China to improve enforcement of IPR. Shortly after our newsletter, the US Trade Representative announced she was requesting two separate formal WTO consultations with…Read More

IP Newsletter, December 2007 Louis Vuitton Malletier (“LVM“), the well-known maker of luxury goods, sued a Las Vegas company, its principal owner and one of its retail distributors for infringement of its LOIUS VUITTON, LV marks and design copyright. Summary judgment dismissing the case was…Read More

First prosecution in Hong Kong on champerty and maintenance On 8 July 2008, the Department of Justice spokesman said that the activities of recovery agents in personal injuries cases may constitute offences of champerty and maintenance. In a recent prosecution, which is a first of…Read More

Pilot scheme for voluntary mediation in petitions presented under s168A and s177(f) under the Companies Ordinance Here is a link to the new Practice Direction 3.3 approved by the Chief Judge on 4 September 2008:http://legalref.judiciary.gov.hk/doc/whats_new/prac_dir/html/PD3.3.htm The Practice Direction provides for a pilot scheme for voluntary…Read More

Facts This case concerns a Mr Hazan and a Ms Han who were a couple and lived together. In April 2002, Ms Han and Mr Hazan agreed to go into the shoe business together, through the entity HK Sindy Footwears Ltd (Footwears). Mr Hazan did…Read More