China: fake Apple Stores can not be closed

The Chinese government has two fake Apple Stores closed, but can there at three other shops not pass, because they have no counterfeit Apple products sell. The closed stores did not have the proper business license.

In total, were the authorities of the Chinese city of Kunming five counterfeit Apple Stores. The authorities started an investigation after an American logger discovered that three electronics stores in the city itself, erroneously, as Apple Store profileerden.

Of the three hundred shops by the government are inspected, there are two closed, because they do not have the appropriate license had for a shop. The closure was not the result of infringement on trademarks, reports Reuters. The three other fake Apple Stores, according to the authorities will not be closed, because they don’t counterfeit products to sell. That, reports AP.

There are in China only four official Apple Stores: in Shanghai and Beijing. According to the logger that the namaakwinkels discovered, were the shop employees convinced that they are really for Apple worked, although The Wall Street Journal, a staff member said that that denied.