Re: China and fake products

[Mike Patterson <mike () snowcrash ca>]

Definitely.  Google fake cisco, it's been a problem in IT for years.  I
think I started hearing about it in the early 2000s, if not the late
90s.  Unfortunately, not much can be done, caveat emptor.

Mike

On 2010/11/14 11:43 PM, Sebastien J wrote:
> Not really,  China and Russia kind of follow their own rules. China 
> does have patents and copyrights, but there is so much infringement 
> that it makes it hard to police and stop. Just you wait until
> there's a Chinese Irongeek ;)
>
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Adrian Crenshaw
> <irongeek () irongeek com> wrote:
> > Hi All, I know some of you have also been playing with the Teensy
> > boards for making PHUKD devices. I stumbled across this today:
> >
> > http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/counterfeit.html
> >
> > and was suspicious. One of the comments there pointed to:
> >
> > http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/counterfeit.html
> >
> > Ok, I don't have a huge problem with people making clones that
> > looks almost exactly like something else, but to slap someone
> > else's logo on something and claim they made it? This is not the
> > only instance I've encountered. I ordered an mp3 play awhile back,
> > and I knew it was nothing Apple related (The ad did not claim it to
> > be, and did not want it to be), but the maker slapped an Apple logo
> > on it.
> >
> > Is there really no trademark law that can be enforced between China
> > and other countries?
> >
> >
> > Adrian
> >
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