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Uh not a native speaker, but the very first sentence of that blurb:

Brand Licensing provides the permission to trademarks, under defined conditions.

Really doesn't read well to me, feels like they omitted a verb, like it should be "the permission to USE trademarks" or something. Being permitted to a trademark feels very chopped-off.

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That is how lawyers speak in the United States, not normal people.

I’ve read my fair share of American legalese, and I haven’t seen either the phrase “permission to trademarks”, or the odd usage of the definite article. Combine that with the phrase “Tablets in USA” lower down (few Americans put the A in USA, and even if they did, it would have “the” before it), and I’m guessing it’s written by someone from another country. Not that it matters.

TV's and PC's made my eyes bleed immediately. I'm a non-native English speaker and I can't help wondering if those are actually signs that it _was_ written by a native English speaker (US, or otherwise).

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