Violating trademark can get you a visit from Homeland Security

Okay, whose the terrorist making Rubik's Cube knockoffs

[hannamyluv]

So far as she knows, Pufferbelly Toys owner Stephanie Cox hasn't been passing any state secrets to sinister foreign governments, or violating obscure clauses in the Patriot Act. So she was taken aback by a mysterious phone call from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to her small store in this quiet Columbia River town just north of Portland.

Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said agents went to Pufferbelly based on a trademark infringement complaint filed in the agency's intellectual property rights center in Washington, D.C.

[story.news.yahoo.com...]

[webwoman]

Great story. I love the last line of the article.

[vkaryl]

Oh, good LORD. Yah - the last line is classic....

I note that no one addressed the "knockoff" mfr's statement that the patent had expired and they weren't in violation....