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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

German Cops Shut Down Fake-iPhone CeBIT Booth

I told you January 20, 2007, August 8, 2007 and September 21, 2007, all about the Meizu M8 Mini One cell phone, which blatantly steals Apple's iPhone intellectual property. Police in Germany have reportedly shut down Meizu's CeBIT booth and seized all marketing materials. The Chinese company had been brazenly flogging its counterfiet phone, apparently having forgotten that Germany isn't a lawless free-for-all like China is. The police promised more crackdowns on more fake products for today. [UPDATE 8:01 AM 3/6/2008 -- It turns out that the booth wasn't shut down because of the iPhone IP theft. The company was hawking an MP3 player with a stolen codec.] (props to Tom's Hardware)

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