ecommerce

Pinduoduo Inc. (拼多多) is a social e-commerce start-up based in Shanghai. Pinduoduo offers to shoppers discounts on bulk orders; in fact, shoppers are encouraged to form “teams” with their social networking connections on WeChat and QQ to score bigger discounts. Pinduoduo filed its Initial Public Offering on Nasdaq (American stock exchange) on July 26; the IPO offered 85.6 million American depository shares at US $19. The opening price was US $26.5 per American depository shares, up nearly 40% from the issued price. Its massive IPO ranked alongside other Chinese e-commerce giants such as...

E-Commerce is a hot topic, and hence already widely discussed. This Seminar offers the opportunity, to not only learn about e-Commerce from a business point of view, but moreover find out about crucial aspects and challenges of e-Commerce from the perspective of Law.

Topic 1: Legal problems In the Chinese e-commerce market
- Entry models into the Chinese e-Commerce market
- Legal issues when entering the Chinese e-Commerce market
- IPR Protection
- Take Down-Procedure of online shops

Topic 2: E-Commerce Platforms like Tmall and...

With the development and usage of World Wide Web, mobile internet and mobile phones, the Chinese E-Commerce market got an enormous growth. According to “Chinese E-Commerce Market Data Monitoring Report 2016”, the E-Commerce transaction amount reached 22.97 trillion RMB in 2016.

For both Chinese and international enterprises, to join this market is a trend but also a necessity. As one of the mainly path for entering E-Commerce market, the meaning of domain name registration is therefore getting more and more important.

Worldwide exist 330 million registered domain names...

The 2017 Global Intellectual Property Ecology Congress was held in Beijing on November 18, organized jointly by IPRdaily and Capital Intellectual Property Services Association. Theme of this Event was “Establish the new partnership between Intellectual property agencies under ’One Belt and One Road’ initiative”.

Topics like new opportunities for IP, Ideas of IP cooperation under “One Belt and One Road” initiative; new future for IP, IP+Technology; IP capitalism, IP+Finance were discussed by the participants. GIPC 2017 invited 800 industrial elites from more than 300 companies of 15...

Switzerland Chamber of Commerce, SwissCham Beijing, together with the Israel Chamber of Commerce, IsCham , hosted a seminar with the title The Art of E-commerce: Your way into China on October 26th at IBCC- Israeli Business and Cultural Center at 798.

“15.5% of all retail sales, amounting to $752 billion, were transacted online last year — up 26.2% year-on-year.” ---China’s National Bureau of Statistics
“Over 500 million people reportedly engaged in online shopping in China in 2016. By 2020, it is estimated that e-commerce sales in China will surpass those of the...

Counterfeiting products are not unusual in China. The key players of E-commerce in China are the Alibaba Group , which holds 70% of the total E-commerce market in China with Taobao and Tmall, and JD. com with a 20% market share. They step up taking various measures to crack down on counterfeit products, but the effect is quite limited. According to a survey published by State Administration for Industry and Commerce of China (SAIC) and China Consumers’ Association in 2015, there are 7 of 9 E-commerce platforms in the spot-check which sell counterfeit or substandard quality goods. However...

Taobao won an online landmark counterfeiting case against a vendor selling fake Royal Canin cat food on the huge online market. The court ruled that the defendant, a man named Yao, damaged the reputation of Taobao and therefore should pay compensation in the amount of 120.000 Yuan within 10 days. Taobao is also asking the court to order the defendant to publish a written apology in several prominent print and web publications for a week.

This was the first ruling of its kind in China, exemplifying the country’s efforts to fight counterfeiting which has cast a shadow over China’s...