Knockoff News 55
A weekly (or thereabouts) collection of news about counterfeits, fakes, knockoffs, replicas, imitations, and the culture of copying in general around the globe:
- Slam dunk: Georgetown Fine Jewelry enjoined from selling modified Cartier
- Aufed: Bernardo Footware gets Medieval on Michael Kors in design patent claim
- Name is fate: Ditto Apparel sues copycat
- "Smoke and mirrors": Judge clocks counterfeiter in Gucci watch case
- Dot-bomb: Myreplicahandbag.com sued by major designers
- Percolating: Fashionbagcafe.com sued by Chanel
- Flower power: Zinnias sues Cloz in tie-dye trademark claim
- Polar opposites: Magnetic eyewear is subject of patent infringement lawsuit
- Impurrfect: "What about design rights?", IPKat meows
- Let's be franc: French Customs seized record amount in 2006
- Montreal exposed: Border guards find Chinese fashion fakes
- Slay ride: Canadian panel fails to explain how knockoff handbags kill
- Don't get fooled again: Anti-fake tips for shopping online
- Pox populi: Do hot new Saudi discount stores sell fakes?
- Bridging the Gulf: The Middle East's counterfeit trade
- Ethnic cleansing: UK police seek to shut down burgeoning "Baghdad market"
- Trophy strife: Counterfeiting plagues Korea despite IPR award
- Sticky situation: Counterfeit cosmetics lab found in Viet Nam
- Not whistling Dixie: Grand jury indicts Alabama man for selling fashion fakes
- Manual labor: How the Department of Justice prosecutes IP crime
- Jackpot: Raids won't stop profitable Nevada fake trade
- Virgin territory: Utica reports first arrest for selling fake fashion
- Mixed-up confusion: Uticans split on counterfeit question
- Tag team: Gucci et al. bodyslam Florida's Designs by Hetty
- Piling on: Designs aren't really by Hetty, claims Chanel
- True elegance: Reporter invokes Coco in deciding not to buy fakes
And as soon as the WTO returns from its Easter break (why create a bureaucracy if not for the long weekends?), the U.S. will file a pair of cases against China. One seeks greater market access for copyrighted U.S. goods; the other demands greater intellectual property law enforcement.
