▲ Posting a large Mungcho statue found through preliminary online monitoring / (Left) Official Mungcho statue (photo provided by the organizing committee) (Right) Photo of the captured Mungcho statue post (provided by the Intellectual Property Office Korea) © Patent News
The Trademark Special Judicial Police of the Korea Intellectual Property Office (hereafter referred to as the ‘Trademark Police’) will conduct a campaign to prevent the distribution of fake Olympic-related products during the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games (January 19 to February 1) and carry out surveillance in sales sites It was announced that a campaign would be carried out.
This crackdown is part of a cooperation to prevent the distribution of counterfeit products that the Korean Intellectual Property Office agreed to with the Organizing Committee of the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games (hereinafter referred to as the “Organizing Committee”) at the request of the IOC (International ). Olympic Committee) in July last year Activities such as proactive online monitoring have been carried out.
According to the Trademark Police, as a result of recent preliminary online monitoring, a company was caught trying to illegally distribute a large statue of Mungcho (the mascot of the Gangwon Winter Youth Olympics, which depicts the shape of a snowball), and the related sales posts were removed. The mungcho statue is also used as a photo zone, and is currently installed in various places with high population flow, such as Seoul Station, Incheon Airport, and Gangneung Station, with the approval of the organizing committee.
In particular, as online sales of licensed products related to the Winter Youth Olympic Games are only carried out on online platforms in partnership with the organizing committee, users are required to be careful about products fake when buying products related to the Olympic Games as products with the Olympic Games. emblem and mascot of Mungcho.
Jeong In-sik, Director of the Office of Industrial Property Protection and Cooperation of the Korea Intellectual Property Office, said, “The 2024 Gangwon Winter Youth Olympic Games is not only a competition, but also a festival where youth from all over the world gather and exchange cultures, so we will use this opportunity to spread a culture of genuine respect for the Olympic Games.” “We will do our best to ensure that athletes and tourists who want to have fun do not suffer harm due to counterfeit products,” said He.
In the meantime, if users have evidence of the distribution of counterfeit products related to the Winter Youth Olympic Games, they can report it to the Intellectual Property Abuse Reporting Counseling Center (1666-6464).
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