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July 10, 2014

Tesla slams China trademark action
Beijing (AFP) July 09, 2014
Electric carmaker Tesla on Wednesday denounced a Chinese businessman's lawsuit seeking millions of dollars for alleged trademark infringement as an attempt to "steal" its property and "without any conceivable merit". Zhan Baosheng, said to be the founder of a cosmetics website in the southern city of Guangzhou, registered "Tesla" as a trademark in China in 2009, the China Business News said. He also sought to trademark a T-shaped logo and the phrase "Tesla Motors", it said, although those applic ... read more

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