Dec
9
MPIO’s trademark lost in China — owner sells MP3 players too…
From the “trademark cases gone bad” department: MPIO, the Korean company known for building cool flash-based MP3 players -such as the MPIO ONE-, apparently doesn’t own the MPIO trademark in China, since it has been snatched by a Taiwanese businessman before them.
The company is forced to brand itself as Digitalway in China, but get this: they’re into a sort of competition with “themselves”, since the guy who owns the trademark is into the business of selling cheap MP3 players under the “MPIO” brand, even giving his models the same names.
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