Marta Ledwos, the Head of Appleton Luff Paris Office, provided in January and Ferbuary 2024 interactive workshops on the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to MBA students in the e-commerce major at ESG in Paris. The focus was on the GDPR compliance issues, challenges and good practices of e-commerce businesses.
Elizabeth spoke on privacy and data protection laws, including topics such as the intersection of data protection and IP laws, an overview of the growing list of consumer data protection laws in the U.S. states, and China's growing cybersecurity and data transfer laws.
Appleton Luff partners Jay Nee and Kelly Slater led a team that successfully obtained a 0% antidumping duty rate for our client Ton Yi Industrial Corporation, a member of the Uni-President group of Taiwan. This ends the antidumping investigation for Ton Yi.
Appleton Luff partners Elizabeth Chien-Hale and Jay Nee met with the Office of Trade Negotiations of the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China, discussing trade and investment topics.
Appleton Luff partners Kelly Slater and Ed Sim helped Malaysian clients achieve 0% antidumping duty rates from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Our clients Wei Dat Sdn Bhd (for PC Strand) and PMB Silicon Sdn Bhd (for Silicon Metal) received 0% rates after antidumping adminisrative reviews concluded in December 2023.
Our partner Sylvain Poitras reports a memorable visit to Beijing last week during which he delivered two talks on legal support to cross-border medtech operations and investments to various audiences at the kind invitation of CCPIT, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and of CCPIT IP, the oldest full-service intellectual property law firm in China.
A delegation from the CNIPA-US Bar Liaison Council visited Beijing this week. Silicon Valley Partner Elizabeth Chien-Hale is the current Chair of the Liaison Council. Here is a photo with China National IP Administration Deputy Commissioner PengQi LU.
Appleton Luff wishes colleagues, clients, friends, and students a Happy New Year! We also announce the opening of our Paris office headed by our newly elevated counsel Marta Ledwos.
Our partner Sylvain Poitras lectured on medical device law at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) on 21 November 2023, addressing various regulatory, contractual and anti-bribery issues in a cross-border perspective including whether ChatGPT, Med-PaLM 2 and other AI tools should be considered to be regulated medical devices in need in compliance with applicable requirements such as CE-marking under the EU system.
Our client PJSC Stalkanat of Odesa, Ukraine, successfully obtained a 0% (no-dumping) rate from the US Department of Commerce (DOC) for their exports of PC Strand to the United States. The DOC's antidumping administrative review recognized the unique challenges of exporting from Ukraine during the Russian invasion and Stalkanat's fair pricing. Stalkanat was represented by Anzhela Mahkinova of Sayenko Kharenko and Kelly Slater and Ed Sim of Appleton Luff. Slava Ukraine!
When one considers the WTO's present framework, one must ask whether the global trading system's presumptive guardian is approaching an evolutionary dead-end. No matter how difficult, the WTO must reform to survive, and this can only be done by identifying the system’s shortcomings and ways to tackle them.
Silicon Valley Partner Elizabeth Chien-Hale was invited to a podcast by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, along with Dr Francis Gurry, the former Director General at the World Intellectual Property Organisation, to discuss IP protection, IP theft, and how the digital transformation has changed the way IP is protected. Elizabeth focused on issues relating to China.
An Appleton Luff team led by partners Jay Nee and Kelly Slater has successfully obtained an exclusion from U.S. antidumping duties on corrosion resistant steel from Taiwan for our client Yieh Phui Enterprise Co. After 8 years of administrative proceedings at the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and court appeals at the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the CIT affirmed a DOC remand decision confirming a 0% dumping rate (and exclusion) for Yieh Phui.
Silicon Valley Partner Elizabeth Chien-Hale attended the industrial group meeting on climate change at the 2023 IP5 meeting in Honolulu. IP5 meetings are attended by the heads of the world's largest intellectual property offices of the US, China, Japan, Korea, and the EPO. Elizabeth is pictured here with Director General Bai of International Cooperation Department of the China National IP Administration
Ed Sim and the rest of the A/AAPI U-M alumni board were honored to have University of Michigan President Santa Ono speak at the annual meeting in Ann Arbor. Ed serves as on the A/AAPI board as group treasurer, pictured here with president Charmaine Chan, Tak Takahashi, David Hing and Jacob Molewyk from the board.
Our partner Sylvain Poitras participated in the G20&G7 Health and Development Partnership meeting today at IFPMA’s office in Geneva where the World Health Assembly is gathered this week. Appleton Luff is an Associate Partner of the G20&G7 HDP siding with several global health players.
Ed Sim is working with the Cambodian Ministry of Commerce on an ADB-funded project to implement Cambodia's trade remedy laws. The team had its kickoff meeting with Secretary of State of Commerce Pich Rithi this morning.
