Yiwu Commodity Bosses Was Dissuaded
Yiwu Commodity Bosses Was Dissuaded From Applying for Trademark of “Bin Laden”
On May 1, 23:35, the time of the eastern part of the United States (Beijing time was 11:35am. May 2). The U.S. President Barack Obama announced that “al qaeda leader uzziah Bin Laden was killed. The news came out, and during the afternoon of May 2, Beijing time, some bosses from Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China went to the local Industry and Commerce Department or trademark agencies to consult about the matters of the trademark application of “Osama Bin Laden”. “Up to now, already a dozen of bosses have asked me about this matter”, the director of the trademark office told reporters.
Zhejiang Yiwu is the world’s largest commodity gathering & distributing center. The number of the main body of the market has reached 145384, including 129792 individual businesses and 15592 enterprises. In addition, there are also 2811 foreign resident representative offices. This is a place known as “full of business waves and chances”, and the competition of the market is quite fierce.
Xujie told reporters, the bosses who want to apply “Osama Bin Laden” for their goods are mainly the young bosses, especially the young network businessmen. They want to apply “Bin Laden” for the products of toys, masks and so on. These applicated registering trademarks include “Bin Laden”, “Osama Bin Laden”, “base”, etc.
In fact, during the early years of Yiwu commodity market, toys and masks which are named as “Bin Laden” already appeared. A boss who deal with the selling of marks told the purposes to the reporters. “One is for fun, and the other is to attract the consumers”. He said that although the sales volume is not big in our country, they still could get benefit for the promotion of their products if the these trademark could be permitted. During this month, the number of the people come to consult about this matter is over 100.
According to media news, the next day of the shot of Bin Laden, a 23 year old student of the New York University first made a cyber-aquatting and spent 3 hours in building a new website. He sold T-shirts and the daily turnover reached ＄120,000.