Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 217: Japanese Investment in North Carolina’s Life Sciences Industry with David Robinson of Maynard Nexsen
Legal Alert | Japan is Primed for Increased Foreign Direct Investment
Patent Grace Period Considerations in Australia, Japan, South East Asia and the U.S.
Greater Speed and Efficiency: Steps IP Offices Around the World Are Taking to Streamline the Patent Process
Nota Bene Episode 109: Asia Q1 Check In: China’s Emergence as the Number One World Economy and New Hegemonic Role in Asia with Paul Kim
Nota Bene Episode 69: Asia Check In: The Coronavirus’s Impact on Business, the Trilateral Summit, and Japan’s Criminal Justice System with Paul Kim
Dr. Frederick Ch’en discusses generic drugs and the changing pharmaceutical landscape in Asia
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Here we are. August , 2025, and the media is now publishing what facts they have on the various trade deals as well as those that have yet to come to fruition, in addition to the new announcement of imposed global tariffs...more
In the last week, the Trump Administration announced new trade deals with Japan, Indonesia, and the European Union. The White House has now published fact sheets for all three trade deals, outlining the basic structure of the...more
As of July 25, President Donald Trump has announced five bilateral trade deals, setting new tariff rates for the countries involved that the president intends to make effective on Aug. 1....more
On Tuesday evening, President Trump announced a trade deal with Japan via a post on his Truth Social feed. The post specified that the deal would include lowered tariff rates on Japanese autos and a blanket “reciprocal”...more
We are one week away from the re-imposition of the country specific reciprocal tariffs and U.S. trading partners continue to jockey for trade deals with the U.S. government. The latest victor in this race is Japan. The Trump...more
On October 31, 2021, at the Group of 20 (G20) Summit, the United States and European Union announced an interim agreement to relax the Trump-era worldwide Section 232 tariffs on European steel and aluminum articles and...more
The global transition from internal combustion engines (ICE) to battery electric vehicles (BEV) will be transformative and disruptive, if not existential, for many segments of the automotive industry. All direct and indirect...more
On October 7, 2019, the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) published the official text of the US-Japan Trade Agreement (USJTA), which will reduce or eliminate tariffs on bilateral trade in certain agricultural and...more
On October 7, the United States and Japan signed a historic trade agreement which should dramatically increase US exports to Japan, especially agricultural products....more
On August 25, 2019, President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe jointly announced that the United States and Japan have reached an agreement on core principles of a bilateral trade agreement covering...more
Amgen will pay $13.4 billion in cash to buy psoriasis treatment Otezla, a deal that will “pave the way for Bristol-Myers Squibb to complete its acquisition of Celgene” by addressing “regulatory concerns over their union”....more
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has opened a public comment period in connection with the proposed U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement negotiations. On October 16, 2018, USTR notified Congress of its intent to...more
The October blog post will be broken up into two parts. This October 15th post will comment on the TPP Agreement signed today and well as President Xi Jinping’s recent trip to the US and my impressions from Beijing, China...more