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Beer and Logic: If Taiwan Beer Is Sold In China Trademark Issue Is Solved In China

a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Beer"img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281214080180641058" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 192px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T8Z9f-Xvo_g/SUqkOY_1XSI/AAAAAAAAAnc/0PB43XXvT-E/s200/TaiwanBeer.jpg" border="0" //aMr Lin Tzann-feng, senior vice president of Taiwan Tobacco Liquor (TTL) Corporation said according to The China Post quoting him about the possibility of selling a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Beer"Taiwan Beer /a???? in China: strong"/strongWe are confident on the opening of the Chinese market, once the trademark issue is solved, perhaps earlier next year." Read the China Post article a href="http://www.chinapost.com.tw/supplement/2008/12/18/188303/Taiwan-Beer.htm"here/a. It is speculating why China closed its borders for Taiwan Beer.br /br /The Shanghai Daily reported that Taiwan Beer will be sold in February 2009 on China's mainland after a 10-year struggle for access. Read the Shanghai Daily article a href="http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/print.asp?id=384049"here/a.br /br /a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur_(logic)"strongNon sequitur/strong/abr /According to the logical fallacy 'affirming the consequent' if Taiwan Beer will be sold February next year, the trademark issue must be solved, at least according the quote in the China Post article.br /ulliIf Taiwan trademark issue is solved in China then Taiwan beer is sold in China (strongIf A is true, then B is true/strong); /liliTaiwan beer is sold in China (strongB is stated to be true/strong);/liliSo the Taiwan Beer trademark issue is solved in China (strongTherefore, A must be true/strong)./li/ulpLike in a 'non sequitur', there can be more reasons why B is stated to be true, without the necessity that A must be true. /ppRead another IP Dragon article about the Longlife cigarettes trademark of the TTL Corporation a href="http://ipdragon.blogspot.com/2008/08/longlife-trademark-for-taiwans.html"here/a./p

Full post as published by IP Dragon on December 18, 2008 (boomark / email).