Knockoff News 2
A weekly (or thereabouts) collection of news about counterfeits, fakes, knockoffs, replicas, imitations, and copying in general from around the globe:
- Canada nabs an Ebay knockoff seller (17,935 feedbacks!)
- More on China's Olympic-size crackdown
- Forget nukes: Knockoffs make North Korea global threat
- Counterfeit Confessions (a.k.a. fiction)
- "Not guilty" pleas in Hyannis (Cape Cod cops chronicle counterfeit cache)
- Urbana claims "not guilty" either
- Anti-counterfeit consultants say IP theft on rise (report)
- Ford's "knockoffs" depress Detroit analysts
And the award for worst legal advice goes to:
Even if you tell your customers that the goods are fake, you're still in violation of trademark law. Sorry.