China Legal Insight
Lighthouse IP Group’s searchable database of current business, IP, and maritime court cases for seven cities in China.
To be confident in a decision to expand your business into an emerging economy, you need to have a strong understanding of the local legal drivers affecting your company from an up-to-date and trusted source.
Ask corporate executives who have ever had to look for insight into the Chinese legal system, and they’ll tell you they had to rely on a little luck and a lot of shoe leather. Occasionally, a journalist might pick up on a high profile case and write about it in the newspaper. Or, if you know exactly what you are looking for, you may be able to find limited information on the web—in Chinese. To get any real information though, you have to hire lawyers to track down a specific case or two. But what if you’re looking to analyze Chinese decisions in a specific legal area? Up until now, there has been no structured way of keeping track of proceedings in the Chinese courts. So it’s nearly impossible to evaluate legal risks if you can’t find the basics of who, what, where, and when.
Lighthouse IP Group’s China Legal Insight is a new and unique supply of Chinese legal information that is unrivaled in scope. Built from the ground up with a full-time staff of court reporters sitting in on key Chinese court proceedings, China Legal Insight covers cases involving companies, IP, and shipping in seven major cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Jinan, Hangzhou and Hongkong. Although all information is processed and translated into English in our main office in Chengdu, Lighthouse maintains satellite offices that house the teams of reporters providing coverage in each city’s courts. Available in March 2010, China Legal Insight is the only reliable, searchable, electronic form of Chinese court cases.
China Legal Inside will provide:
• A front file of Chinese business, IP, and maritime cases, starting in the spring of 2010. Back files available on demand.
• Weekly downloads of updated court information from the notebooks of our reporters—converted into English by human translators and filed in an XML format.
• Basic docket information for business cases in three of the four levels of Chinese courts—intermediate people’s courts, high people’s courts, and Supreme People’s Court.
• Regular status reports for the duration of business cases, including a summary of the decision.
• Full text English translations of all business verdicts.
• Docket information, status reports, and verdict translations for each IP case in the four court levels of selected cities.
• Comprehensive coverage of the Maritime Court of China, to ensure relevance for end users who need to understand shipping trends and Chinese law.
Whether you are litigating in China, trying to understand legal risk, performing due diligence on a Chinese company, or staying ahead of the latest IP case law, China Legal Inside simplifies your research with the first-ever retrievable system of Chinese court information.
China Legal Insight is currently only available through Lighthouse IP Information partners. To request more information please click here