Chinese official escapes infamous rat poison label

[Fiqikhayre]

Official escapes rat poison label

 

Local media said the application stemmed from a personal dispute

A Chinese official has escaped efforts by a rat poison manufacturer to name its products after him, China's state media reported.

The company applied last month to call its range of pesticides and poisons after Zheng Xiaoyu, the sacked head of the State Food and Drug Administration.

 

But the authorities ruled that Mr Zheng, although under investigation, had a right to protect his name.

 

The former top official is currently facing allegations of corruption.

 

China's Xinhua news agency said that the national trademark administrator had rejected the application.

 

"It is against China's trademark laws to use a name that has adverse effects on society as a trademark," the agency quoted official sources as saying.

 

Xinhua suggested the application could have been caused by a personal dispute between the company - Shenyang Feilong Pharmaceutical Company - and Mr Zheng, who had reportedly ruled against one of its drugs in 1999.

 

Mr Zheng is facing allegations he used his administration's drug approval powers to obtain bribes.

 

Last week he was expelled from the Communist Party after a disciplinary committee ruled he should be "severely punished".

 

Source BBC World news.

[Fiqikhayre]

Boeing could be more creative and name their planes and latest models instead of the boring Boeing 779, Boeing Al-Qeada 1. Certainly Al-Qeada wouldn't dare to bomb one of their own and I hope they would be flattered that they're being named after a whole airlane model.

 

The incentive would be ofcourse to fly with the 'most reliable and safe areolplane in the world'. I know there would be some infringements but it would be none the less a marketing coup.

 

Who wouldn't enroll in the George W Bush School of English grammar and correct pronunciation? I certainly wouldn't.