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Originally posted by ronin
probably an impostor trying to profit on a corporate image. notice that the logo is not correct either? considering that China's copyright/trademark laws are a lot less powerful than the US's, if even enforced, this type of stuff happens a lot
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Trademark infringement in China is a joke.
You can buy EXACT copies of shoes. Exact logos, but spelled MIKE (pronounced mikey, of course), LIKE (likey), BIKE and so on.
EXACT copies of electronic stuff. PALASONIC, PANSONIC, PAMASONIC, PANASOMIC, and so on. EXACT copy of the logos, just slightly different spelling.
SUNY, SOMY, SANY. We would go thru the markets and laugh our a$$ off at the names.
Every once in a while, the Chinese would announce (proudly) that they had busted a big counterfeit ring.
A big media event (usually attended by visiting US dignitaries, Diane Feinstein was one I witnessed) was then scheduled, and they would pile all the stuff they had 'confiscated' (stuff that they could not sell usually) in the middle of the street, and bulldoze it.
What a croq.
They mock us for keeping them from getting MFN status.
Clinton relented after they promised to reform their enforcement of 'intellectual property rights'. Yep, a week later, the same stuff was back, but cost more now.
I hope they are selling (counterfeit) copies of his book like crazy.
I'd bet, they even have (counterfeit) autographed ones as well.