Moral Money

Ms. Lauren Indvik, Fashion Editor
Mr. Chan Ho-him, Hong Kong Reporter
The Financial Times Limited
Bracken House
1 Friday Street
London
UNITED KINGDOM EC4M9BT

Dear Ms. Indvik and Mr. Ho-him,

Thank you for your article of July 19, 2022 in which you reported the wonderful trademark victory for the luxury ladies shoe manufacturer Manolo Blahnik. By now, I am sure that all will have read your report, or other similar reports by your colleagues at the BBC, the Guardian and so on.

As I am sure you intended to say, China has one of the youngest IP systems in the World, and since the milestone Gatt-TRIPS Agreement concluded in 1994, it has worked tirelessly to become an upstanding member of the international intellectual property community. And like the UK, has a first-to-file trademark system.