"The success of Apple Inc's iPad isn't just drawing more competition to the tablet market. It's attracting thousands of counterfeit and knockoff products," Olga Kharif reports for Bloomberg.
"On a single day in July, almost 18,000 fakes and clones resembling the iPad and Android devices were available for sale on 23 e-commerce sites, according to MarkMonitor Inc., a San Francisco-based firm that helps companies protect their brands," Kharif reports. "The tablets can be illegal — for instance, if they have a bogus Apple logo — and often they don't work well and have no warranty protection, said Fred Felman, chief marketing officer of MarkMonitor."
Kharif reports, "The copycat products and suspected counterfeits found in MarkMonitor's survey were offered by more than 5,000 sellers, many of them located in China."
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Lynn Weiler" for the heads up.]
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