Nearly 25,000 shipments of infringing goods from abroad were seized in the U.S. during fiscal year 2011.

No one thought a merger between a Chinese law firm and an international firm would happen so soon.

In a split ruling, the Federal Circuit has upheld an International Trade Commission order that barred a company in China from importing railway wheels into the United States because the company misappropriated trade secrets in China from a U.S. company.

In what appears to be the first ruling granting motions to dismiss in the current wave of securities class actions against Chinese companies whose shares trade on U.S. exchanges, a federal judge in Manhattan has tossed claims against China North East Petroleum Holdings and related defendants.

Canadian mining company Silvercorp, China’s largest primary silver producer, has filed a defamation suit against websites that allegedly published false reports accusing the company of engaging in a $1.3 billion accounting fraud.