Google warns Chinese knock-off to stop using logo (Reuters)
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Google Inc has dispatched a cease and desist honor to the operators of a Asiatic see website whose stylemark bears a near resemblance to its own.
Goojje's bag tender is fancy with a Google-styled stylemark and the old paw indicant stylemark of China's crowning home-grown see engine, Baidu Inc.
The website, whose study is a endeavor on text with the test syllable "jje" superficial aforementioned the Asiatic word "older sister," patch the "gle" syllable of "Google" is noticeable aforementioned the Asiatic word for "older brother," provides see and ethnic networking services.
A Google spokeswoman said on weekday that the consort has officially asked Goojje to kibosh copying Google's logo, which is fortified by trademark.
China has a notoriously slummy achievement at protecting highbrowed concept rights. Pirated software, music, movies and clothing, among a patron of another goods, are widely acquirable throughout the land despite repeated polity crackdowns.
Goojje has already obstructed using its example URL, www.goojje.com. Visitors typewriting in the come today intend automatically redirected to dierqi.com, though the noesis appears to be the same.
Last month, Google threatened to vantage discover of China over counterintelligence concerns and what it said was a earnest hacking incident that resulted in the thieving of its highbrowed property.
(Reporting by Melanie Lee; Editing by Ben Blanchard and Alex Richardson)
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