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Inside Kunming's 'dwarf empire'
Posted byFascinating story Chris. I think I'll go check it out too. How curious.
Inside Kunming's 'dwarf empire'
Posted bySpeechless...The village looks like something I'd have drawn in third grade. Shuddering at the thought of Lin's idea of "promotional work" that IS humiliating. I miss KM.
Yunnan news roundup
Posted byI assume this test only involved a very limited amount of traffic since the North-South traffic in Kunming today was worse than imaginable. Cool that the IMAX is ready to go. They are awesome.
Yunnan news roundup
Posted byWe put the date below the headline... the day it goes up it says "today", the next day it says "yesterday", after two days the date is displayed.
Yunnan news roundup
Posted bythat open bit of road in the photo looks far from safe... i may be seeing things (cough, cough), but are there people walking on the road? wacky.
Yunnan news roundup
Posted bythanks to my google news alert i know when this was publish and so i know what date the "tomorrow" you refer to is. could be cool to have a date on your stories though. or is there one and i missed it?
Yunnan coffee producer found in violation of Nestlé trademark
Posted byI am not buying HoGood's argument because Nestle has always very actively discouraged "Coffee-Mate" from becoming genercized. It does this by always (as far as I know) referring to it as "Coffee-Mate Non Dairy Creamer." This way, the Coffee-Mate is the brand name and the "Non Dairy Creamer" is what it is. I think this alone makes HoGood's argument a loser.
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Yunnan coffee producer found in violation of Nestlé trademark
Posted byIf you develop a product and brand name that dominates the market to the extent that it b/c a generic term for sth, you should not be penalized for that, and you should definitely retain the rights to your trademark. That's why royalties are paid for public singing of the song "Happy Birthday to You" even though it's b/c so common as to be the standard, at least in countries where intellectual property rights are honored.
Yunnan coffee producer found in violation of Nestlé trademark
Posted byinteresting stuff: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark
sounds like there's a difference of opinion on this subject across different jurisdictions - the wikipedia article contrasts the US and Germany. so, a key question is the view the Chinese legal system takes. any Chinese lawyers out there?
this must be a concern for any corporation with a major brand, but especially so if the legal environment involved has a protectionist streak.
Yunnan coffee producer found in violation of Nestlé trademark
Posted byThe argument is not at all flimsy if in fact the term 加菲伴侣 has in fact become colloquial and used to refer to all coffee flavour additives. It's something called a genericized trademark. Look it up.
GoKunming Weekend Preview
Posted byKunming hip-hop? Doesn't that involve one guy screaming "cao ni ma" repeatedly for 45 mins?
New high-speed rail line to link Kunming with Dali
Posted byChris,
Wow, this is real good news for Dali folks - all those tourists ready to flood Dali!
Yulong Snow Mountain's glaciers disappearing
Posted byWe are Malaysians who visited Yulong Snow Mountain in end May 09. Put aside the poor weather (raining all day), we were actually quite disspointed for not able to see the mountain top at all throughout our stay in Lijiang.
China blogs: endangered love songs, virtual coal mining, fake condoms
Posted byNice new feature. As the Chinese would say: Ding!
Kunming to once again hold no-car days
Posted bykunming has one of the highest car-ownership rates? i thought that's one of chengdu's dubious claims to fame too. maybe all chinese cities like to boast that? whatever, carfree days are the bomb.
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