CBP Seized OnePlus Buds as ?Counterfeit? AirPods. Now It's Doubling Down
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🙃.” Everyone had a good laugh at the presumed mix-up, except for CBP, which on Monday made clear that it is absolutely not backing down.https://twitter.com/CBP/status/1305300486090825731“Upon examining the shipment in question, a CBP Import Specialist determined that the subject earbuds appeared to violate Apple’s configuration trademark,” the agency said in a statement shared with WIRED. OnePlus declined to comment.CBP helps enforce the intellectual property rights of US companies by preventing goods suspected of infringing on those trademarks from entering the country. Still, given that China has been a major source of counterfeit and pirated goods for years, according to CBP, it's unclear whether the OnePlus case is part of a broader political escalation.“The vast majority of product seizures are pure counterfeits and everyone knows it,” says McKenna.
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