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Message: <blockquote data-quote="warwickuni" data-source="post: 30639427" data-attributes="member: 101444">In Sri Lanka 80-90% goods are fake including mobile phones ,laptops , electrical appliances (some are parallel imports -they are not fake but not from agent eg pharmaceuticals ). This problem was there as long as I know and this is a matter for respective TradeMark owners (not nessarily patent owners as patent can be licenced or assigned )Our Intellectual Property and Trade Mark belong to Commerce or Trade ministry. They do not get involved in consumer issues. their main duty is to register the patent -that is all. similar to our land Registry.It is up to owners of Trademark /patent holders to take any violations to court. (there are some criminal offences but this is used very rarely as Police do not know this Law to put it very bluntly!You are on wrong path to solve your warranty issue of the machine .....</blockquote>

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