The door of the Taiji Commercial Alliance Arbitration Court had just been pushed open when a strange mixture of garlic, glass, and ink aromas drifted out. Wearing a judge's hat improvised from the leftover scraps of the alliance banner and holding a bamboo slip of the "Twenty Rules of the Commercial Alliance" that automatically flipped its own pages, Huwa glared at the two factions below the bench and muttered to himself, "Is this lineup today supposed to be a brawl?"
Case One: The Glowing "Infringing Garlic"
An elderly peasant selling garlic held up a glowing green garlic bulb, crying so hard that snot and tears streamed down his face. "Muhammad used glass-blowing techniques to create glowing night garlic, and now nobody buys my regular garlic!" Meanwhile, Muhammad, a Persian glass artisan, held up a glass garlic lamp in which the garlic bulb flickered in the light and shadow. "This is a cross-industry invention using the green-cattle dyeing method and my own technology. It is called the 'Taiji Glowing Night Garlic'!"
Huwa's eyes lit up, and just as he was about to shout, "Great creativity!", the old peasant suddenly whipped out an abacus and clattered away at the beads. "His garlic sells for ten guan, while mine is only five wen! The price difference exceeds 2,000%!" The entire courtroom gasped. Protagonist pushed up his garlic-skin glasses. "According to the regulations, different processes do not count as identical goods... but Muhammad, you must teach the old peasant ba…
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