Täällä seurataan Trumpin presidenttikautta

[Pöydällä nakki ja pullo vodkaa]

^ no siis onhan tossa se että moni median edustaja käyttää tuota kun puhuu siitä

[Nahkanuijan nuupauttaja]

The Trump Organization’s trademark for escort services in China isn’t what you might think

Among the 38 trademarks approved for the Trump Organization by the Chinese government over the past few weeks is one that seems likely to raise a few eyebrows: As of now, it is the only company that can legally operate Trump-branded escort services in China.

Which is precisely the point.

Last year, we explored a surprising international business effort called “Trump Escorts.” Based at trumpescorts.com but offering services in a number of countries, Trump Escorts used the Trump lettermark for its logo and listed its address as 180 Riverside in New York City, the location of a building called Trump Place. On the day after Donald Trump announced his bid for the presidency, Trump Escorts sent out a news release promoting its revamped website.


That conveniently timed news release was actually a pretty good indicator that the company was simply trying to capitalize on the Trump name and not actually affiliated with the businessman. A little digging revealed that the company was using the Trump name to brand its escort services without the consent of the Trump Organization. That 180 Riverside address, for example, got the address of Trump Place wrong — and Trump Place is an apartment building. The Trump Organization is located in Trump Tower.

Alan Garten, chief legal officer for the Trump Organization, told The Washington Post in a statement at the time that the Trump Organization had sent a cease-and-desist to Trump Escorts, forcing the company to change its name to “Mystique Companions.”

"[W]e zealously protect Mr. Trump’s valuable name, brand and trademarks,” Garten said at the time. “Unfortunately, as the brand has grown in popularity around the world, there are more and more people who have tried to trade off his name.”

That’s the factor at play with the Chinese trademark for Trump Escorts. As The Washington Post’s China bureau chief, Simon Denyer, noted in his analysis of the trademark applications, “Chinese trademark law grants priority to whoever files an application first, so lawyers often advise clients with wide-ranging business interests to file broad, defensive trademark applications against a range of products to prevent other people jumping in — a practice known as ‘trademark squatting,’ common in China.”

Here is such an advisory from the law firm of White and Williams:

In order for a foreign business to assert trademark rights in China, the first and most important step to take is to register the specific trademark. China recognizes a “first to file” system, which generally means that the trademark right belongs to the first person who properly registers the mark in China. Unlike the United States, in China there is no prior-use or intent-to-use requirement needed before registering a trademark nor are common law rights recognized. In other words, any party, whether or not it intends to use the mark in the stream of commerce, may register a trademark in China.

So someone could have stepped up and trademarked Trump Escorts in China if Trump’s organization had not done so first. Denyer noted that others have set up protective trademarks in China using the Trump name “for products such as condoms, toilets, pesticide and paint, none of which have any business relation to the U.S. president.”

In a statement to The Post, Garten explained that the escort service trademark was indeed defensive.

“The Trump Organization has been actively enforcing its intellectual property rights in China for more than a decade, and its core real estate related trademarks have been registered in China since 2011 — many years before President Trump even announced his candidacy for office,” he said. “The latest registrations are a natural result of those long-standing, diligent efforts, and any suggestion to the contrary demonstrates a complete disregard of the facts as well as a lack of understanding of international trademark law.”

In other words: The Trump Organization’s trademark for escort services in China is defensive, meant to box out others who might want to set up Trump-branded escort services in the country, which has happened in other countries, as the example of “Trump Escorts” makes clear.

Of course, Trump now has another line of defense against being associated with escort services in China. Even if the Trump Organization were to use that trademark to set up escort services, Trump is not in charge of his eponymous business empire. Any unpopular business created between now and Jan. 20, 2021, has nothing to do with the president himself.

[Jussin villapaita]

Melko mielenkiintosta settiä R. Maddowilta viime yönä. Video linkin takana.

[Jesse Python]

Melko mielenkiintosta settiä R. Maddowilta viime yönä. Video linkin takana.

ei toiminu kun vaati flashia. Toi Rachel on tosi kova toimittaja, mutta hemmetti sen "ironinen" ote rassaa mua.

[Hans Normaali]

Valkoisen talon mukaan presidentti Donald Trump ei ole ollutkaan minkäänlaisen tutkinnan kohteena.


Presidentti Donald Trump väitti viikonloppuna presidentti Barack Obaman salakuunnelleen Trump Toweria.
Trump ei esittänyt todisteita väitteelleen, vaan kehotti kongressia tutkimaan salakuuntelun.
Keskiviikkona Valkoinen talo perääntyi ja sanoi, ettei Trump ole ollut minkäänlaisen tutkinnan kohteena.


Donald Trump väitti viime lauantaina Twitter-tilillään ex-presidentti Barack Obaman salakuunnelleen Trump Toweria vaalikampanjan aikana. Obama kiisti salakuuntelun edustajansa välityksellä, kuten myös FBI:n johtaja James Comey. Myös monet republikaaniedustajat epäilivät presidentin väitteitä ja vaativat oikeusministeriöltä tietoja asiasta.

Keskiviikkona Valkoisen talon ääni muuttui. Lehdistösihteeri Sean Spicer asteli toimittajien eteen ja myönsi, ettei Trump ole ollut minkäänlaisen tutkinnan kohteena, kertoo ABC News.

- Ei ole mitään syytä, että meidän pitäisi ajatella presidentin olleen minkään tutkinnan kohteena, Spicer sanoi toimittajille.

Spicer oli muutamaa minuuttia aiemmin aluksi vihjaillut, että Valkoinen talo oli epävarma, oliko presidentti kohteena vai ei.

Muutamaa minuuttia ennen lehdistötilaisuuden loppua eräs paikalla ollut avustaja sitten ojensi Spicerille paperin, josta hän luki aiemmin mainitun vakuuttelun siitä, ettei Valkoisella talolla ollut mitään syytä uskoa nykyisen presidentin olleen tutkinnan kohteena.

Trump itse ei ole asiaa kuitenkaan vielä kiistänyt.

http://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/201703 ... 8_ul.shtml

[Hans Normaali]

Ns. Rapakontakainen Rapalan viehe. Ja hyvin tarttui!

[Ananaskääpiö]

En varmaan jaksais toimittajana käydä noilla Spicerin tuumaustunneilla.

[Ingmar Bergmanin kuolema]

En varmaan jaksais toimittajana käydä noilla Spicerin tuumaustunneilla.

Voisi hankkiutua SNL:n Spicer-infohin hakemaan ainekset jutuilleen. Vähän siinä kintaalla että kummasta saa revittyä mehukkaammat/pimeämmät jutut.

[Jesse Python]

Mitenköhän miljoonien äänien vaalivilppitutkinta etenee?

[Pöydällä nakki ja pullo vodkaa]

Mitenköhän miljoonien äänien vaalivilppitutkinta etenee?

hiljaisuudessa. ei ole kerrottu muuta kuin se että pence johtaa tutkimuksia. tutkimukset julkaistaan ennen 2018 vaaleja ja niiden perusteella tiukennetaan äänestysvaatimuksia alueilta missä asuu paljon vähemmistöjä. simppeliä

[Nahkanuijan nuupauttaja]

Environmental Protection Agencyn pomo Scott Pruitt meni sitten julistamaan, ettei hiilidioksidi ole ilmastonmuutoksen tärkeä syy.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/09/epa-chie ... ruitt.html

"I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact, so no, I would not agree that it's a primary contributor to the global warming that we see," he told CNBC's "Squawk Box."

"But we don't know that yet. ... We need to continue the debate and continue the review and the analysis."

The statement contradicts the public stance of the agency Pruitt leads. The EPA's webpage on the causes of climate change states, "Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas that is contributing to recent climate change."

[Pöydällä nakki ja pullo vodkaa]

sekä havaijin että washingtonin osavaltiot aikoo estää trumpin muslimibännin oikeusteitse ja obamacaren kumoaminen on vaikeuksissa. trump on väläyttänyt yksityiskeskustelussa että olisi liian kova arvovaltatappio jos ei onnistu joten siinä tapauksessa ei edes yritäkään, vetää vain rahat pois obamacarelta, antaa systeemin romahtaa ja syyttää sitten obamaa. meno taas vaihteeksi: ihan vitun kova

[Nahkanuijan nuupauttaja]

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/u ... ZCUVYFRSc5

‘No Comment,’ Justice Dept. Says, Asked About a Trump Inquiry

The controversy generated by President Trump’s posts on Twitter about being wiretapped has generated intense scrutiny of every word on the matter.

DOUG MILLS / THE NEW YORK TIMES
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
MARCH 9, 2017

WASHINGTON — With questions still swirling over President Trump’s unsubstantiated claims that he was wiretapped on orders of President Barack Obama, the Justice Department on Thursday declined to confirm statements a day earlier from the White House that Mr. Trump was not the target of a counterintelligence investigation.

Officials also said the White House had not relied on any information from the Justice Department in offering a statement denying the existence of an investigation.

The White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, told reporters on Wednesday that “there is no reason to believe there is any type of investigation with respect to the Department of Justice” or “ that the president is the target of any investigation whatsoever.”


But a Justice Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said that there was no indication that anyone at the Justice Department had given the White House that assurance.

Asked whether Mr. Trump was in fact the target of an investigation, the official offered a “no comment.”

In normal circumstances, a “no comment” from the Justice Department on the status of any investigation would be standard practice. But the controversy generated by Mr. Trump’s posts on Twitter last weekend about being wiretapped — which Mr. Obama and others have strongly denied — has generated intense scrutiny of every word on the matter.

James B. Comey Jr., the F.B.I. director, asked the Justice Department after Mr. Trump’s posts to publicly refute the notion that Trump Tower or Mr. Trump had been wiretapped. But the Justice Department has declined to do so.

[sössön sössön]

Melko mielenkiintosta settiä R. Maddowilta viime yönä. Video linkin takana.

ei toiminu kun vaati flashia. Toi Rachel on tosi kova toimittaja, mutta hemmetti sen "ironinen" ote rassaa mua.

aikamoista tykittelyä oli: Venäjä-keissi näyttää pitävän yhä enemmän paikkaansa (mut virallisilta tutkijoilta on turhaa odottaa paljoakaan koska ne on Trumpin miehittämiä niin tää taitaa olla lehdistön duunia onkia nää tarinat esille), ja käsiteltiin New Yorkerin juttua joka oli Trumpin kohtuu sheidistä hotelli pisneksestä Azerbaidzanissa jossa kait pestiin Iranin vallankumouskaartin masseja aika isoja kasoja. Et kandee katsoa jos pystyy.

[sössön sössön]

Eli tää New Yorkerin juttu: Donald Trump’s Worst Deal
The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.