Zoku™ takes its intellectual property seriously and expects others (e.g. vendors, competitors) to do so as well. Zoku™ has a wide variety of intellectual property rights, including U.S. and International Utility Patent Applications and U.S. Design Patent Applications, U.S. and International Trademarks, Copyrights and Trade Secrets. Therefore, Zoku™ will aggressively protect its intellectual property rights, involving the civil and criminal courts to the fullest extent allowed by law, including seeking injunctions to stop the sale of infringing products, impounding and destroying infringing products, and seeking monetary damages.