China grants more trademark approvals for Ivanka Trump firm - including voting machines

[TomSea]

China grants more trademark approvals for Ivanka Trump firm - including voting machines

BEIJING (Reuters) - China last month granted initial approval for 16 new trademarks for the fashion brand of U.S. President Donald Trump’s daughter and adviser Ivanka, including voting machines, a search of official records on Tuesday showed.

Ivanka announced in July she was shutting her fashion line to focus on her role as an informal White House adviser, where she is working on advancing working women.

Since Trump’s surprise November 2016 election, his family has faced criticism that its portfolio of real estate and consumer goods businesses, which lean heavily on the Trump name, conflicts with its Washington roles.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-usa-ivanka/china-grants-more-trademark-approvals-for-ivanka-trump-firm-including-voting-machines-idUSKCN1NB0TL

This is newsworthy, it could go in various areas of the forum.

[PeteS in CA]

The trademarks were applied for in 2016.

In a more advanced and sophisticated nation it would have taken twice as long and bureaucrats would have shaken down the company for a few million $$, calling it "fees".