A Chinese man has been snapping up dozens of domain names related to popular American start-ups and is seeking to trademark some of the names in the US and China.
Qian Jin of Nanjing, China, has applied to register marks like Foursquare, Twitter, Quora and Instagram and has also bought dozens of websites like Pinterests.com and Pinterest.de
Qian's activities are described in a lawsuit filed by Pinterest last week in San Francisco.
i taught chinese where trying to move away from being the copycat and making something original.They should stop stealing from american companies.