[incompatible]

I don't think it's specifically about China, but with international issues of trademarks.

Look at ugg boots, considered generic in Australia and New Zealand, but aggressively trademarked by Dekkers elsewhere in the world, including the USA. Producers from Australia can't use the name when exporting.

[chillacy]

Or Supreme Italy, which makes knockoff supreme-branded goods legally. Samsung recently did a collab with them and Supreme the US brand wasn't too happy.

[cozzyd]

Or Budweiser Budvar (sidenote: at a conference earlier this year I had the pleasure of seeing a Czech person at a different table order Budweiser thinking it was the Czech beer... He was not happy with the result).

[ImprovedSilence]

huh. TIL. Never knew that was a generic name.

[adinobro]

In Australia, it was considered a type of shoe like a "boot". We got really annoyed when a US company trademarked an Australian product and then stopped Australian companies from selling it under the name they had been using for decades.

Sort of like this exact case...

[siquick]

Thank you for posting this. A timely reminder that the problem isn't China, or any country in specific - the problem is greed.

[MRD85]

It's not even closely related to any brand here. It's completely generic. Most of the time the ugg boots producers are really small businesses and you purchase locally made ones.

[pvaldes]

A possible solution would be the [australian] government trademarking their traditional product names or a similar variant, and then acting as umbrella for thousands of australian small companies. Granting a free use of the term and defense against predatory practices. A sort of shared trademark.

Maybe should be named uggstralian boots from now on.

[MRD85]

Why should it be named uggstralian now? It's an offensive suggestion. Do you think generic American words,like Pickup truck or Hamburger, should be able to be trademarked and then America would need to change the word?

[pvaldes]

> Why should it be named uggstralian now?

Because "ugg boots" is now a trademark, therefore unavailable for everybody else, whereas "hamburger" is not.

Can you provide a better name?