Ivanka's Chinese trademarks

[Snake Plissken]

Why isn't the media forcing her to give them back?

The corruption of the Trump Crime Family is unprecedented, Trump's children even had to attend court mandated ethics training and media continues to ignore their corruption.


Yet Hillary Clinton's emails still get more media coverage than the active corruption currently being perpetrated in the White House.

Instead of trying to drag Joe Biden down with rumors and innuendo to create another close election, the media should be focused on real news happening right now in real-time.

[samsingh]

1. because the media loves to be slapped around by trump and they are pathetic

with some exceptions at CNN (Don Lemon), Rachel Maddow, Lawrence, etc

[Celerity]

2. the MAGATs love the Trump grifting, as they all think they are but one lucky break away from being

an oligarch (or at least filthy rich) too.

Even the slack-jawed 400-pounder sitting outside his dingy Arkansas double-wide in shit-stained, stretched-to-the-limit sweatpants and a torn pussy-grabber T-shirt thinks he is soon going to get to share in the booty, as long as those pesky PoC and Libs are killed off with all deliberate speed.

[Ms. Toad]

3. You're reading far more into trademark registration than is warranted.

Trademark registrations are granted based on use, or intent to use, a particular mark in connection with a particular class of goods.

There is generally very little discretion in granting them. In the US, if you are using the mark and meet certain basic criteria (it doesn't take ordinary words out of market - e.g. you can't trademark "toothpaste" or anything similar for toothpaste, you can't stomp on an existing mark, etc., your mark isn't obscene), you are entitled to registration.

Even after you register the mark, it has very little value - unless you build up the brand. It's just a source identifier - not a government stamp of approval. And the right to exclude others from using a mark comes from the use of the mark in connection with a class of good, not from the grant of the registration.

[Snake Plissken]

4. It's almost impossible to get a trademark in China after their 2014 law went into effect

https://www.chinalawblog.com/2014/06/chinas-new-trademark-law-and-the-law-of-unintended-consequences.html

They bypassed the laws for Princess Ivanka

[Ms. Toad]

5. Not really.

That's pretty much standard process elsewhere in the trademark world. The law merely brought China in line with standards in the rest of the world.

Although I'm not currently working as an IP attorney, it was my bread and butter for 13 years - and our primary company has marks around the world, including in China.