Kamgar recently backed a first set of contestants for Afghan Star, a knockoff of American Idol.
My grandmother was fond of buying knockoff handbags and passing them off as real.
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The check is popping up everywhere, partly as a result of urban aficionados' buying knockoff versions.
Canadian generic firm Apotex says it is planning to launch a knockoff no later than 2005.
At startup XP displays an icon for Windows Messenger, Microsoft's knockoff of AOL's market-leading Instant Messenger.
Going into the police van, they snapped my picture on a Fujimax Polaroid knockoff, hipster party style.
"The best kind of knockoff show just uses an existing idea as a jumping-off point, " Dehnart said.
Many of them are immigrants trying to eke out a living in what appear to be knockoff costumes.
The machine is designed to take on Apple's latest iMac, and Gateway 's iMac knockoff, the Gateway One.
Last December he rousted a knockoff New Balance gym shoe maker in China.
Like the Telorzan, the knockoff Cialis pills were rife with impurities, and the amount of active ingredient varied wildly.
Apotex, the privately held generic drugmaker that is making the knockoff, said that Plavix generics hit the market today.
The floor of his front hall is a "knockoff" of the chateau's floor.
The problem is, dozens of other companies have sold guitars with those shapes too--a knockoff market developed in the mid-'70s.
There, the downtown streets were lined with clothing stores that sold lungyis and knockoff jeans, or T-shirts imported from Thailand.
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As a result e-tailing is evolving into a knockoff of traditional retailing, with many of the same middlemen taking their cut.
Walk through Shanghai's infamous Xiang Yang Market and you'll have the chance to buy counterfeit Rolex watches, knockoff Nikes and pirated DVDs.
Reason: The knockoff artists hadn't proved safety and efficacy for their medicine.
Microsoft is reportedly even developing a motion-sensitive knockoff of the Wii's controller.
But the rise of no-frills knockoff products has been changing the game.
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Ralph Lauren's uncanny faux-aristocratic knockoffs fueled knockoffs of the knockoffs, and now an international knockoff industry rivals the profits of the drug trade.
Wellpoint has offered consumers coupons for Alavert, a cheaper Claritin knockoff produced by Wyeth (nyse: WYE - news - people ).
Nasonex, a nose spray, was better than its Claritin knockoff, Clarinex.
Everything in the Microsoft store is a cheap knockoff of Apple.
The project was ambitious: This machine was not a knockoff of a Dell or an Apple but a complete rethink, from the motherboard to the escape key.
He started out by designing the console for a car-racing game, and then by conceiving the look of the attackers for a knockoff of Space Invaders called Space Fever.
The biggest spreadsheet fortune wound up in the coffers of Gates' Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), whose 1-2-3 knockoff, Excel, is the market leader today.
"This is not going to be a panacea, " said Kal Raustiala, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the co-author of "The Knockoff Economy, " a recent book on intellectual property.
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Hasbro and Mattel grabbed headlines with their push to shut down Scrabulous, a knockoff of the Scrabble board game developed by a pair of entrepreneurs in India (see: "Scrabulous Facing Copyright Infringement Charges").
"A lot of folks may think that there's nothing wrong with buying a knockoff Denver Broncos jersey, but in reality, the money is being used to fund the drug war in Mexico, " Abar said.
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