Adidas Suspected Abuse Of Five Star Red Flag Design Was Bombarded By Netizens.

A sports bag worth 350 yuan was sold in a Adidas special store in Hongkong. The flag was "red five yellow" as the basic design, while the yellow star, the largest of the five stars, was printed with a Adidas logo.

In the Hongkong market, two famous German brands, Adidas, are suspected of abusing the Chinese five star red flag pattern, which may violate the "Flag Law".

Reporters yesterday found no similar products in Huaqiang North store and Dongmen store in Adidas, Shenzhen.

Reporter Shenzhen inspection no similar products

Reporters yesterday came to Shenzhen Huaqiang North Maui department store survey, Adidas on the 7 floor has a large monopoly.

Reporters found no similar "flag pack" found in Hongkong.

In the exclusive area of the satchel, there is a full red bag. Apart from not having five yellow stars, other designs are quite similar, and the origin of Shanghai is priced at 350 yuan.

The reporter asked the clerk if there was a Chinese flag style bag for sale.

The clerk said no.

Adidas's use of the Chinese flag pattern as a product appearance has aroused many netizens' discussion on the Internet.

Some netizens think that the Adidas's behavior is not proper. They should make an apology for using the national flag to make the appearance of the product without changing the national flag.

Some netizens believe that Adidas is not designed to offend the Chinese flag, which is a design of Adidas products. Before that, there were German national flags and world's national flag shoes.

The reporter saw on an auction website that Adidas really had a German flag bag, and the Adidas logo was printed on the black stripe. In Hongkong, there was a Adidas Chinese flag bag shop. No product was sold.

Adidas: willing to apologize if there is any dissatisfaction.

According to yesterday's Hongkong newspaper, Beijing Olympic cooperation partner Adidas, at least two Olympic series sports bags and Polo shirts, suspected of abusing the Chinese five star red flag pattern may violate the national flag act.

Adidas responded by saying that if the incident caused anyone unhappy, the company sincerely apologized and decided to stop the sale of two products in real time.

Reporters at a sporting goods store in Sheung Shui, Hongkong, and two Adidas stores in Tsim Sha Tsui and Tongluowan found that they were selling five-star sportswear worth 350 yuan.

The sports bag uses the national flag "red bottom yellow five stars" as the basic pattern, and the largest yellow star in the five stars is printed with the Adidas logo.

A shop assistant pointed out that the sports bag arrived only earlier this year, and is a new product launched for the Olympic Games.

Reporters at the Adidas store in Tsim Sha Tsui discovered another short sleeved Polo shirt that also used the flag of red, yellow and five stars, which also sold for 350 yuan.

As a lawyer, Tu Jinshen, a Legislative Councillor, pointed out that it is very likely to violate the flag and national emblem Ordinance unless it has been previously exempt from the relevant units.

Members of the Legislative Council of Hongkong believe that when the Beijing Olympic Games is held soon, the relevant units may consider allowing the Olympic Games products with Chinese flags to be sold, such as sportswear, without involving insulting the national flag, so as to facilitate businesses and consumers.

Adidas responded that it had decided to temporarily suspend the sale of two products, and that if the design of the sports bags and Polo shirts caused any displeasure or dissatisfaction, Adidas sincerely apologized.

Adidas stressed that as a partner of the Chinese Olympic Committee, there is absolutely no offense to China. Its products are just for praising and praising China as the host country of the 2008 Olympic Games.

The maximum penalty for using the national flag is 50 thousand yuan.

The Hongkong administration said that it did not respond to individual incidents and refused to answer whether Adidas had applied for exemption on flag pattern products.

However, no person shall be allowed to use a national flag or national emblem in any trademark, advertisement, profession, occupation or profession without the prior approval of the Commissioner, and the offender shall be liable to a maximum fine of 50 thousand yuan.

If the unit receives a complaint, it will ask the relevant authorities to comply with the regulations and consider the case referred to the relevant departments to follow up.

Adidas has sponsored China's national football team in recent years and made a team uniform for the national team.

According to reports, Adidas won the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games' partnership qualification with the price of more than 1 billion yuan and beat the famous sports goods brand such as Lining, and was responsible for making 2008 Olympic costume.