Trump gets apporoval for 38 trademarks in China, including escort services.

[Best Virginia]

China has granted preliminary approval for 38 new Trump trademarks, paving the way for Donald Trump and his family to potentially develop a host of branded businesses from hotels to insurance to bodyguard and escort services, public documents show.

Trump’s lawyers in China applied for the marks in April 2016, as Trump railed against China at campaign rallies, accusing it of currency manipulation and stealing US jobs. Critics maintain that Trump’s swelling portfolio of China trademarks raises serious conflict of interest questions.

China’s Trademark Office published the provisional approvals on 27 February and Monday.

Dan Plane, a director at Simone IP Services, a Hong Kong intellectual property consultancy, said he had never seen so many applications approved so expeditiously.

“For all these marks to sail through so quickly and cleanly, with no similar marks, no identical marks, no issues with specifications – boy, it’s weird,” he said.

Ethics lawyers across the political spectrum say that if Trump receives any special treatment in securing trademark rights, it would violate the US constitution, which bans public servants from accepting anything of value from foreign governments unless approved by Congress. Concerns about potential conflicts of interest are particularly sharp in China, where the courts and bureaucracy are designed to reflect the will of the ruling Communist party.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/08/china-approves-trump-trademarks-businesses

 

[WVex-pat in GA]

Ethics lawyers across the political spectrum say that if Trump receives any special treatment in securing trademark rights, it would violate the US constitution, which bans public servants from accepting anything of value from foreign governments unless approved by Congress.

It's ok, all of his business dealings are held in a blind trust... Oh, ... wait....Umm....?

 

[Best Virginia]

SHTT's crickets....

 

[WVU82_rivals]

It's far behind 'The Clinton Foundation', but it has potential unlike the 'TCF' because there are smart people running the Trump show.

thanks for the article...

I'll even translate it for you...

"You're Fired!"

---you've left some very important information out of 'your story'...---

---you tried to cnn-us with your HALF-TRUTH story...---

The trademarks were given preliminary approval on Feb. 27 and March 6, among more than 2,000 other trademark applications, according to the website of China’s Trademark Office.

If no one objects, they will be formally registered in 90 days.

The fact that the trademarks were granted preliminary approval in that time period “doesn’t jump out at me as prima facie problematic,” said Scott Palmer, a partner and leading trademark lawyer in the China office of Sheppard Mullin, an international law firm.

“As for 38 applications being preliminarily approved in less than 12 months, I see that all the time,” said Palmer. “I represent some very large trademark filers, and we get large numbers of trademarks through to preliminary approval in 10 months fairly regularly now.”

That Trump submitted these trademark applications does not necessarily mean he has plans to open businesses in any of the named sectors.

 

[WVU82_rivals]

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[WVU82_rivals]

China gives greenlight to dozens of Trump trademarks

China has granted preliminary approval for 38 trademarks linked to Donald Trump, documents on China's state trademark office show, giving the U.S. President and his family protection were they to develop the "Trump" brand in the market.

The trademarks - which in theory cover a wide sweep of businesses from hotels to mobile libraries and escorts - underline the complexities and potential concerns over conflicts of interest facing President Trump, who has a sprawling business empire using the Trump name around the world.

Trump, a wealthy real estate developer, has previously said he has handed over his business interests to a trust overseen by one of his sons and a Trump Organization executive. He can, however, revoke the trust at will and, as its sole beneficiary, remains linked to it financially.

The trademarks, which Trump's lawyers applied for in April last year, are mostly registered to "Donald J. Trump" and listed to the address of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York.

They were given preliminary approval in two lists published on the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce on Feb. 27 and Monday.

Alan Garten, general counsel for the Trump Organization, said in a statement the group had been actively enforcing its intellectual property rights in China for over a decade.

"The latest registrations are a natural result of those long-standing, diligent efforts, and any suggestion to the contrary demonstrates a complete disregard of the facts as well as a lack of understanding of international trademark law."

The new trademark approvals were mostly variations in English and Chinese on the name "Donald Trump".

They list business areas including branded spas, massage parlors, golf clubs, hotels, insurance, finance and real estate companies, retail shops, restaurants, bars, bodyguards and escort services.

However, intellectual property lawyers said trademark applications were often very broad to give the applicant the most comprehensive protection for their brand.

Three of them, related to hotel brand Scion that Trump's sons want to expand in the United States, are not directly registered in the President's name but via DTTM Operations LLC. The three are also listed to the Trump Tower address.


POLITICS AND BUSINESS

The preliminary approvals are open to be challenged for around a 90-day period. Barring objections they will be formally registered in late May and early June respectively.

The Associated Press earlier reported the trademark approvals.

Trump's personal ties between politics and business have prompted concern from politicians and rights groups who say the President could face potential conflicts of interest related to the extensive business affairs of his family.

Democratic Senator Ben Cardin, the ranking member on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called for the Departments of State, Commerce and Justice to brief Congress on the Chinese trademark approvals and on "the potential constitutional dangers that they present."

"This is an astonishing development ... It's clear to me that officials in Beijing have come to appreciate the potential return on investments for China in having a positive, personal business relationship with the President of the United States," Cardin said in a statement.

Cardin has previously introduced a resolution demanding Trump cut his ties with the Trump Organization or risk violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which bars public servants from accepting anything of value from foreign governments unless approved by Congress.

Chang Tsi & Partners, listed as acting on behalf of Trump's team for the China trademark applications, did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment on the approvals.

Trump received a single trademark approval last month in China for Trump-branded construction services, following a 10-year legal battle.

 

[WVU82_rivals]

Put another way, Trump had the choice of either trademarking a Trump escort service in China or risking someone else doing the same thing and then actually launching that service. Such fears aren’t unfounded. As the Washington Post discovered last May, an Australia-based company had already tried to capitalize on the Trump name by launching Trump International Escorts, which has no affiliation with the Trump Organization and ultimately changed its name under legal pressure. “As a company we zealously protect Mr. Trump's valuable name, brand, and trademarks,” Trump Organization lawyer Alan Garten told the paper at the time. “Unfortunately, as the brand has grown in popularity around the world, there are more and more people who have tried to trade off his name.”

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...trademark_in_china_but_not_why_you_think.html

 

[Mntneer]

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