Outrage as Chinese peddle Casey Anthony Duct Tape
By DEREK CLONTZ
Your World Report
A sleazy Chinese manufacturer wants to sell industrial-strength Casey
Anthony Duct Tape in the United States.
 It's highly
unlikely that the firm will get its way because public resistance is likely to be strong
and angry.
But, incredibly, by law, say legal experts, Huo Zang Fo Enterprises, with headquarters
in Beijing, could use theCasey Anthony branding on a U.S. product IF they
trademark it without reference to THE Casey Anthony who stands accused of murdering her
daughter, Caylee, 2, in a scenario that may have involved the use of chloroform and duct
tape, last summer.
But that would take some legal maneuvering by some pretty callous attorneys, so, if
this company thinks they can pull it off, more power to them said the expert who also is
an analyst for a leading cable news show.
I'll just say they better have money and lots of it, and that’s just to get
the name on a trademark application. The biggest hurdle would be persuading the American
public to buy such a product. I wouldn't be caught with anything like that around my
house.
Seriously, I think most people would avoid it.
Reports that the company, an upstart with no known international trade
experience, wanted to manufacture and market the duct tape first appeared in Asian
trade journals and has been picked up by Pacific Rim newspapers and radio and TV
newsrooms throughout the Far East.
Closer to home, Reuters and AP and all major U.S. networks and cable outlets are said
to have reporters on the story.
But a New York agent of firm says there “is nothing to this
because all we've said is that we would like to market a duct tape with a Casey Anthony
nameplate or with advertising that might allude to unconventional uses or high-profile
news stories.
We're always open to ideas said the agent, an American who spoke on the condition of
anonymity. But we are not branding the name Casey Anthony at this time.
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