SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's trademark system is a minefield of murky rules and opportunistic "trademark squatters" that even the world's biggest companies and their highly-paid lawyers find hard to navigate, as Apple and Facebook are the latest to find out.
While Apple is embroiled in a legal wrangle over the right to its "iPad" brand, Facebook has to contend with a slew of applications for more 60 variations of its name as it weighs up whether to enter the China market.
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