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By Douglas Perry @ The Oregonian/Oregon Live, March 10
[....] China's trademark office this week provided preliminary approval to 38 "Donald J. Trump" trademarks, ranging from golf clubs and massage parlors to concierge services and retail shops. Dan Plane, a Hong Kong-based intellectual-property consultant, told The Associated Press he had "never seen so many applications approved so expeditiously" in China.
"For all these marks to sail through so quickly and cleanly, with no similar marks, no identical marks, no issues with specifications -- boy, it's weird," Plane said.
"[B]y pursuing new trademarks," NPR reported, "the Trump Organization, which the president continues to own, may be laying the groundwork for expansions in China."
The trademark approvals bring back into the spotlight the U.S. Constitution's emoluments clause [....]
Comments
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/10/2017 - 7:23pm
Trump runs roughshod over the Constitution’s emoluments clause
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/10/2017 - 7:29pm
*bump*
by artappraiser on Thu, 04/06/2017 - 7:16pm