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Olympics and the Trade-Mark Police

By Richard P.W. Stobbe

In China, the birthplace of countless knock-offs and counterfeits, the task of policing Olympic marks must be daunting indeed.  The trade-marks police must strive to be faster, higher, stronger than the offenders.  French retailer Carrefour was recently rebuked for the use of Olympic emblems in its Nanjing retail location.  Hanging Olympic banners and propping up Olympic mascots in-store is [...]

Full post as published by Intellectual Property in Canada (ipblog.ca) on August 22, 2008 (boomark / email).