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Luckin Coffee New Brand Infringement

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JUNE 25, 2023 - A Luckin coffee store is seen in Shanghai, China, June 25, 2023. Luckin Coffee's newly launched coffee brand "Kunlun brewing snow" has been accused of infringement by Oriental cultural fragrance brand To Summer.

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Luckin Coffee New Brand Infringement

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JUNE 25, 2023 - A user looks at the mobile phone of Luckin Coffee's new coffee brand "Kunlun Brewing Snow" at Luckin Coffee shop in Shanghai, China, June 25, 2023. But the name has been accused of infringement by Oriental cultural fragrance brand To Summer.

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Luckin Coffee New Brand Infringement

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JUNE 25, 2023 - A user looks at the mobile phone of Luckin Coffee's new coffee brand "Kunlun Brewing Snow" at Luckin Coffee shop in Shanghai, China, June 25, 2023. But the name has been accused of infringement by Oriental cultural fragrance brand To Summer.

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Luckin Coffee New Brand Infringement

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JUNE 25, 2023 - A user looks at the mobile phone of Luckin Coffee's new coffee brand "Kunlun Brewing Snow" at Luckin Coffee shop in Shanghai, China, June 25, 2023. But the name has been accused of infringement by Oriental cultural fragrance brand To Summer.

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Luckin Coffee New Brand Infringement

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JUNE 25, 2023 - A Luckin coffee store is seen in Shanghai, China, June 25, 2023. Luckin Coffee's newly launched coffee brand "Kunlun brewing snow" has been accused of infringement by Oriental cultural fragrance brand To Summer.

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Luckin Coffee New Brand Infringement

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JUNE 25, 2023 - A user looks at the mobile phone of Luckin Coffee's new coffee brand "Kunlun Brewing Snow" at Luckin Coffee shop in Shanghai, China, June 25, 2023. But the name has been accused of infringement by Oriental cultural fragrance brand To Summer.

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Okamura wins Snow Brand meet

SAPPORO, Japan - Sota Okamura sails to a jump of 93 meters to secure his first victory at the Snow Brand Cup on Jan. 8 in a competition cut short by inclement weather.

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Takanashi wins Megmilk Snow Brand competition

SAPPORO, Japan - (From L) Yuka Seto, Sara Takanashi and Yuki Ito pose for photos during a victory ceremony at the Megmilk Snow Brand competition at Miyanomori Ski Jump Stadium in the northern Japan city of Sapporo on Jan. 4, 2015. Takanashi won the competition while Seto came second and Ito finished third.

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Takanashi wins Megmilk Snow Brand competition

SAPPORO, Japan - Japan's Sara Takanashi soars through the air during the women's ski jumping at the Megmilk Snow Brand competition at Miyanomori Ski Jump Stadium in the northern Japan city of Sapporo on Jan. 4, 2015. Takanashi won the competition with 230.0 points.

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Japan's ski jump medalists Ito, Shimizu thank supporters

SAPPORO, Japan - Daiki Ito (L) and Reruhi Shimizu, members of Japan's bronze medal-winning ski jumping team at the Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia, pose with their medals at a gathering to thank supporters at their company, Megmilk Snow Brand Co., in Sapporo, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Feb. 22, 2014.

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Veteran Funaki soars to victory

SAPPORO, Japan - Veteran Kazuyoshi Funaki celebrates after winning the Snow Brand Megmilk Cup ski jumping meet at Miyanomori hill in Sapporo on Jan. 3, 2011. The Nagano Olympic large hill champion won his second straight national event.

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Veteran Funaki soars to victory

SAPPORO, Japan - Veteran Kazuyoshi Funaki soars to win the Snow Brand Megmilk Cup ski jumping meet at Miyanomori hill in Sapporo on Jan. 3, 2011. The Nagano Olympic large hill champion won his second straight national event.

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Watase wins Snow Brand Cup

SAPPORO, Japan - Yuta Watase soars through the air during the first round of the Snow Brand Cup ski jumping event at the K-90 Miyanomori hill in Sapporo on Jan. 3, 2010. Watase recorded the longest jumps in both rounds to win his first Snow Brand Cup title.

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Watase wins Snow Brand Cup

SAPPORO, Japan - Yuta Watase celebrates after winning the Snow Brand Cup ski jumping event at the K-90 Miyanomori hill in Sapporo on Jan. 3, 2010. Watase recorded the longest jumps in both rounds to win his first Snow Brand Cup title.

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Snow Brand, Nippon Milk to set up joint holding firm in Oct.

TOKYO, Japan - Tadaaki Konose (L), president of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., and Minoru Obara, president of Nippon Milk Community Co., shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 27 at which they announced that the two dairy products makers will set up a joint holding company for their management integration on Oct. 1.

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Veteran Okabe wins Snow Brand title

SAPPORO, Japan - Veteran ski jumper Takanobu Okabe nailed the day's longest jump of 97 meters on his first attempt en route to winning his third straight domestic event of the season at the Snow Brand Cup on the Miyanomori hill in Hokkaido on Jan. 4.

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Higashi wins 2nd Snow Brand title

SAPPORO, Japan - Veteran Akira Higashi holds up the Snow Brand Cup ski jumping trophy in Sapporo on Jan. 5. Higashi made the day's longest jump of 96 meters on his first attempt en route to winning his second Snow Brand Cup title and his first in six years.

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Women execs clean up the mess at scandal-hit firms

OSAKA, Japan - Yoshiko Sakamoto (R), Duskin Co.'s female managing director, and Nobuko Hiwasa (Left), Snow Brand Milk Products Co.'s outside managing director, speak on corporate ethics at a forum in the town of Kobuchisawa, Yamanashi Prefecture.

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Nippon Milk begins nationwide sale of milk products

TOKYO, Japan - A girl tastes milk produced by Nippon Milk Community Co. at an outlet of supermarket operator Daiei Inc. in Tokyo's Meguro Ward. on Jan. 7. Nippon Milk, established on Jan. 1 to take over the milk businesses of troubled Snow Brand Milk Products Co. and two agricultural cooperative federations, started nationwide sales of milk products under the Megmilk label.

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Snow Brand Foods execs sentenced for beef fraud

KOBE, Japan - The Kobe District Court on Nov. 22 sentenced five officials of the now-defunct Snow Brand Foods Co. to two years in prison, suspended for three years, for fraud related to a government-run beef-buyback scheme devised after mad cow disease hit Japan last year. (Pool photo)

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Snow Brand's planned firm to use new brand name 'MEGMILK'

TOKYO, Japan - Shinichi Sugitani (C), who will assume the presidency of Nippon MilkCommunity Co. to be launched Jan. 1, and other officials show the company's new brand called ''MEGMILK'' at a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 22. The new company will be formed by integrating milk divisions of the scandal-hit Snow Brand Milk Products Co., the National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations (Zen-Noh) and the National Federation of Dairy Cooperative Associations (Zenrakuren).

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2,000 firms hold shareholders' meetings

TOKYO, Japan - Shareholders of Snow Brand Milk Products Co. enter a building in Sapporo's Chuo Ward on June 27 to attend the company's shareholders' meeting. Some 2,020 companies in Japan held shareholders' meetings the same day. The shareholders' meeting were those of listed and unlisted firms whose 2001 business year ended March 31 this year.

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Police arrest 5 ex-Snow Brand Foods execs over fraud

KOBE, Japan - Police officers enter the head office of Snow Brand Foods Co. in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on May 10 to search for evidence in connection with the arrest of five former executives of the company. Police arrested them on suspicion of defrauding an industry body out of 196 million yen by falsely labeling beef.

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Snow Brand employees launch reform drive

TOKYO, Japan - A group of employees at Snow Brand Milk Products Co. has launched a campaign to get the scandal-rocked company back on its feet and will present their reform proposals to the management in June, group members said May 7. ''We should not stay in the doldrums where everyone loses self-confidence. We want to prove ourselves,'' one member said.

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(2)Snow Brand Foods shareholders approve dissolution plan

SAPPORO, Japan - Members of the workers' union of Snow Brand Foods Co. hold a banner registering their opposition to the dissolution of the scandal-tainted firm outside a Sapporo hotel, where the shareholders meet in an extraordinary session April 26.

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(1)Snow Brand Foods shareholders approve dissolution plan

SAPPORO, Japan - Shareholders of Snow Brand Foods Co. attending an extraordinary meeting at a Sapporo hotel April 26 approve a management proposal to dissolve the scandal-hit firm and entrusted its president and five other board members with remaining tasks to wind it up. The company earlier admitted it passed off Australian beef as Japanese beef to benefit from a government buyback scheme introduced after the discovery of mad cow disease in Japan last September.

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Civic group asks Snow Brand to hire outside food safety exec

OSAKA, Japan - Representatives of Kabunushi Ombudsman (Shareholder Ombudsman), an Osaka-based civic group, hand a letter to Snow Brand Milk Products Co. Vice President Haruhiko Okada (L) on April 17, asked the scandal-hit firm to hire an outside board member to ensure the safety of its food products.

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Snow Brand sells land of its birthplace in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Snow Brand Milk Products Co. has sold its land and buildings in Sapporo, the birthplace of the Snow Brand group, to a subsidiary amid the parent firm's deteriorating business following a series of scandals. The photo shows a memorial hall for Snow Brand's butter products.

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Snow Brand to restructure milk business for rehab+

TOKYO, Japan - Snow Brand Milk Products Co. President Kohei Nishi (L) and Vice President Haruhiko Okada look at each other while trying to answer a media question during a news conference in Tokyo on March 28. The company said it will seek to spin off its unprofitable milk business to integrate it with those of two national agricultural cooperatives under a fresh restructuring program.

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Snow Brand uses expired butter in milk products

SAPPORO, Japan - Hideki Takenouchi (L), managing director of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., speaks Feb. 23 at a news conference in Sapporo, Hokkaido. He talked about the company using some 760 tons of expired frozen butter, after rewriting the expiration dates, in processed milk and other dairy products.

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Snow Brand rewrites expiration dates for expired butter

SAPPORO, Japan - The boxes in the photo, taken Feb. 23 in Sapporo, are used by Snow Brand Milk Products Co. for frozen butter made for business use. The company has rewritten the expiration dates for such butter.

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Snow Brand Foods to disband in late April

TOKYO, Japan - Koshiro Iwase, president of Snow Brand Foods Co., announces at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 22 that the company will disband in April and fire most of its 1,000 employees in March. The dissolution stemmed from sharply declining sales in the wake of the scandal involving the deliberate mislabeling of beef products.

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Snow Brand Foods to liquidate in April

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo headquarters of Snow Brand Foods Co., a subsidiary of Snow Brand Milk Products Co. The firm will be liquidated in late April due to plunging sales in the wake of a scandal involving the deliberate mislabeling of beef products.

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Snow Brand Milk to explore capital infusions, tie-ups

TOKYO, Japan - Snow Brand Milk Products Co. President Kohei Nishi (C) and Vice President Haruhiko Okada (2nd from L) bow down at the beginning of their news conference at the company head office in Tokyo on Feb. 5. The scandal-hit company said it will consider exploring capital infusions from other firms or other forms of business tie-ups to carry out its corporate reforms.

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Snow Brand Foods offices searched over labeling scam

TOKYO, Japan - Investigators enter the headquarters of Snow Brand Foods Co. in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Feb. 2 to gather documentary evidence following allegations the firm deliberately mislabeled foreign beef to obtain state subsidies under a government-run beef buyback scheme.

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Criminal complaint filed against Snow Brand Food exec

TOKYO, Japan - Farm minister Tsutomu Takebe responds to questions from reporters at his ministry Feb. 1 after the ministry filed a criminal complaint against a Snow Brand Food Co. official who allegedly orchestrated the falsification of beef-product labels to obtain mad cow disease subsidies from the government.

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Snow Brand Food head office, warehouse inspected

SAITAMA, Japan - Saitama Prefectural government officials walk into a meat processing facility of Snow Brand Food Co. to investigate alleged fraud over false labeling of beef. Investigators from the Tokyo government's food inspection team and public health officials also searched Snow Brand Food's head office in Chuo Ward and warehouse in Ota Ward the same day.

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Snow Brand Food president resigns

TOKYO, Japan - Snow Brand Food Co. President Shozo Yoshida wipes his tears at an emergency news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 29 where he announced his resignation to take the blame for a series of scandals involving false labeling of beef in connection with mad cow disease. His resignation came a few hours after police began questioning Snow Brand Food executives in the meat marketing division of the Tokyo head office.

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Snow Brand Food admits to more beef-labeling fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Snow Brand Food Co. officials bow at a news conference at the company's head office in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Jan. 28. The company, already hit by a scandal for falsely labeling meat to claim government subsidies in connection with mad cow disease, admitted that two of its employees intentionally mislabeled beef from Hokkaido to pass it off as Kumamoto Prefecture beef.

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Doi briefed on beef-labeling scandal

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Social Democratic Party leader Takako Doi (2nd from R) is briefed Jan. 28 by Yoichi Mizutani (R), president of storage contractor Nishinomiya Reizo in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, where Snow Brand Food Co. falsified data on imported Australian beef.

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All Snow Brand Food products removed from stores

KOBE, Japan - All Snow Brand Food Co. ham and sausage, delicatessen and processed-meat products are removed from shelves at a supermarket in Kobe on Jan. 26, as its scandal relating to mad cow disease was unveiled. Snow Brand Food's employees in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, repackaged 13.8 tons of Australian beef last October in order to pass it off as Japanese beef and claim government compensation under the buyback scheme.

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Snow Brand chieff suggests he may quit

TOKYO, Japan - Snow Brand Food Co. President Shozo Yoshida arrives at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on Jan. 25 for talks on the role his firm played in a new scandal related to mad cow disease. Yoshida indicated later he may resign to take responsibility for the company's fraudulent actions.

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Probe of Snow Brand Food expands to beef stored in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo metropolitan government inspectors enter Snow Brand Food Co.'s Tokyo headquarters Jan. 24 to check if beef the company has stored in the capital is actually domestic. It was revealed the previous day that the firm had passed off foreign beef as domestic to get government subsidies designed to compensate under a domestic beef buyback scheme to cope with the mad cow disease scare.

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Snow Brand Food products disappear from shops

OSAKA, Japan - A co-op in Osaka withdrew Snow Brand Food Co. products from the shelf Jan. 24 and posted a notice of sales suspension, a day after the meat packer admitted to a mad cow disease subsidy swindle.

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(2)Snow Brand Food disguises Ausie beef as Japanese

TOKYO, Japan - Shozo Yoshida (L), president of Snow Brand Food Co., bows in apology at a news conference at his company Jan. 23. The subsidiary of Snow Brand Milk Products Co. admitted it had disguised imported Australian beef as Japanese to take advantage of a government subsidy system introduced during the mad cow scare.

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(1)Snow Brand Food disguises Ausie beef as Japanese

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Boxes containing imported Australian beef disguised as Japanese are shown to members of the media at a warehouse in Nishinomiya on Jan. 22. Snow Brand Food Co., a subsidiary of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., admitted it had attempted to pass the beef off as Japanese to take advantage of a government subsidy system introduced during the mad cow scare in Japan.

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More than 2,000 firms hold shareholders' meetings

TOKYO, Japan - Shareholders of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., investigated last year over a food-poisoning scandal, enter a building June 28 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, to attend the company's general shareholders' meeting. Some 2,100 listed and unlisted companies across Japan held such meetings the same day.

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Snow Brand to cut 1,000 jobs on poor earnings results

TOKYO, Japan - Kohei Nishi (C), president of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., announces the company's earnings report for fiscal 2000 at a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo's Nihombashi district on May 18. Nishi said Snow Brand Milk, which caused a tainted-milk scandal last week, plans to chop 1,000 jobs due to dismal earnings.

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Kokudo Bunnies edge Snow Brand 4-3 to win JIHL finals

TOKYO, Japan - Players of the Kokudo Bunnies celebrate their winning of the Japan Ice Hockey League playoff finals 3-0 in the best-of-five series by beating Snow Brand 4-3 at Tokyo's Suntory Higashifumi Ice Arena on April 5.

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Kokudo Bunnies blitz Snow Brand 9-1 in JIHL finals

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Ice hockey players of the Kokudo Bunnies show their appreciation to their fans at Shin-Yokohama Skate Center in Yokohama on April 1 after bouncing all over Snow Brand and storming to a 9-1 victory in Game Two of the Japan Ice Hockey League (JIHL) playoff finals to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series.