Commerce
October 30, 2014
Cartier's mechanical panther
By Joe McCarthy
Luxury conglomerate Richemont recently won a significant court decision against counterfeits in the United Kingdom, but could such a ruling ever arrive in the United States?
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I would like to start the whistleblowing with http://www.solepen.com that just ripped me off on two cheap Chinese Montblanc knockoff pens. I am surprised that they made it to me through customs and were not confiscated.
In retrospect, I should have studied their website closer, but didn’t. Now I have two fake pieces of garbage, and am lighter in the wallet. I would have preferred not to have ever been able to see this website, had it been blocked from my view as suggested in the article.