China`s city of lights shines with better IPR protection
(WorldNews Business)

GUANGZHOU - Seven years ago, Ding Yunxiang`s first startup failed due to copying an Italian luxury lighting brand. But today, his company in South China`s Guzhen township, dubbed `China Lighting Capital,` works with several Italian lighting designers. Ding started his first company in the manufacturing hub on the Pearl River Delta in 2007. Its copycat lights, sold at home and abroad, brought in more than 20 million yuan ($3 million) in the first year. In 2008, he was sued by the Italian company and lost the lawsuit in 2010, when his company went bankrupt. In 2014, Ding founded the lighting brand MUMOON focusing on original designs. The...