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Facebook sees trademark victory against Chinese drinks copycat

on May 9, 2016 | 0 comments

By John McCarthy

Social media giant Facebook has glimpsed a legal victory in China after court deemed a company’s use of the Facebook logo to sell food and drink a breach of copyright.

A local company called ‘face book’ sold food and drinks branded with the popular social media company – which is conversely not even accessible on the Chinese mainland as a result of its great firewall blocking many Western pages.

Reuters reports that the Beijing Municipal High People’s Court shut down Zhongshan Pearl River Drinks’ 2011 application to use the ‘face book’ trademark on its goods.

The ruling said the company had “violated moral Read full story ›

Source: The Drum