Argon Technology | Mouse Head Duck Toy Banned Across the Network, Merchants May Lose Millions

The two hottest animals these days are ducks and mice. However, the ducks and mice you mentioned may rank second in popularity, because the hottest animal on the entire network right now is the rat head duck neck, also known as pointing at a rat and calling it a duck or pointing at a rat and calling it a neck. Since the rat head duck neck incident at Jiangxi Institute of Technology occurred, this topic has attracted widespread attention. After a period of investigation, the incident has now been resolved, confirming that the “foreign object” found at Jiangxi Institute of Technology was a rat head.

Although the incident has come to an end, the popularity surrounding the rat head duck neck remains high. Some sensitive businesses have begun to apply for trademarks for rat head duck neck, and some businesses have designed related toys, with rat head duck neck keychains being very popular online.

However, all toys related to rat head duck neck have recently been banned from sale across the entire network. When searching for products related to rat head duck neck on the three major e-commerce platforms, no results can be found. The product pages show that they have been taken off the shelves, and according to information provided by customer service, the online stores have been closed, indicating that the products are banned from sale: the violation type is the release of prohibited information – products and services that violate public order and good customs, and feudal superstition.

There may be three reasons for this situation:

1. Out of stock: Because rat head duck neck is very popular, the sales of related toys are booming, so people may think that the reason why they can’t find related products on e-commerce platforms is because they are out of stock. However, even if they are out of stock, the links to the related products should be searchable, but they just can’t be ordered. But now even the product pages and links can’t be found, which means this is not the reason for being out of stock.

2. Infringement: After the rat head duck neck incident occurred, some people applied for trademarks in a timely manner, which may include text trademarks and image trademarks. Therefore, some people believe that rat head duck neck products were considered to be infringing and were forced to be taken off the shelves. However, this statement is also unexplainable, because the rat head duck neck incident happened a short time ago, and trademark applications usually take more than half a year, so the rat head duck neck products currently being sold do not constitute copyright infringement. Unless someone had applied for a similar trademark before this. But if such a trademark had been applied for before the incident occurred, then in such a hot situation, the relevant parties would definitely produce or authorize other businesses to produce related products, but now no related products can be found on the entire network, which means that this is also unrelated to copyright infringement.

3. Artificial crackdown

During the duck neck incident, some people may have been worried that the exposure of the matter would damage their own interests, so they deliberately concealed some facts. Although the truth of the matter has now been revealed, due to certain considerations, the relevant stakeholders may hope that the incident will no longer continue to ferment, so they begin to take action to prohibit the appearance of certain words or products. However, the people or institutions that can ban the sale of rat head duck neck products on all e-commerce platforms are definitely not simple.

As for why these products cannot be sold normally online, and the reason for the ban across the entire network, the current situation is the intervention of public power institutions: if the ban across the entire network is prohibited by the relevant departments using public power, it will make people feel worried. Although this approach can avoid the further expansion of the situation and cover up certain facts, it will bring huge losses to businesses. Some businesses may have produced a large number of these rat head duck neck products, and once they cannot be sold due to the ban across the entire network, it will cause huge losses. Therefore, I believe that rat head duck neck toys should be allowed to be sold normally, and public power should be exercised under the constraints of law. Exercising public power beyond the law will lose credibility.

In summary, rat head duck neck toys, as a normal commodity, the design of the merchants does not violate relevant laws and regulations. However, we cannot understand why such products cannot be sold normally online, and why they are banned across the entire network. Who’s rights are violated in this situation remains a mystery. Quoting Xinhua Net: In terms of market supervision, next, we also need to dissect the “sparrow”, find the “disease”, prescribe the right medicine, fill the loopholes in the process of law enforcement, improve the management system, tighten and implement responsibilities, and build a “no chaos” defense line. At the same time, strengthen the supervision and management of the entire process of law enforcement, grasp the early and the small, prevent problems before they happen, and truly put power into the cage of the system. Please stop overdrawing credibility, okay?