It all began when an American released last month on his blog called "BirdAbroad" a false picture of an "Apple Store", the Apple store located in the city of Kunming. The American firm, the first global market capitalization for this week, which has a total of four "Apple Store" in China, decided to complain to the Chinese authorities. Their investigation revealed the existence of twenty-two Apple stores counterfeit. The products were sold are real devices in the U.S. firm, but not Apple China has authorized the resale of its products within these institutions.
Counterfeit-reaching financial
The United States and other Western countries accuse China regularly for not sufficiently protect intellectual property rights. According to the U.S. International Trade Commission, piracy and counterfeiting of software and other products in China cost U.S. $ 48 billion and 2.1 million jobs in the United States in 2009. The sign Swedish Ikea is also a victim of Chinese counterfeiting and that it would investigate fake stores, always located in Kunming, which would have disturbing similarities with its institutions.
The fake Apple store mentioned in the blog has been closed since the beginning of this case.
