“Authorities in China’s southwestern city of Kunming have identified another 22 unauthorised Apple retailers weeks after a fake of the company’s store in the city sparked an international storm,” Michael Martina reports for Reuters.
“China’s Administration for Industry and Commerce in the Yunnan provincial capital said the stores have been ordered to stop using Apple’s logo after Apple China accused them of unfair competition and violating its registered trademark, state media said on Thursday,” Martina reports. “The market watchdog agency said it would set up a complaint hotline and boost monitoring, the official Xinhua news agency reported.”
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Martina reports, “In May, China was listed for the seventh year by the U.S. Trade Representative’s office as a country with one of the worst records for preventing copyright theft.”
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