US marshals raided a Chinese booth showing one-wheeled hoverboards and confiscates the company’s goods during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held in Las Vegas this past weekend.
Bloomberg reported that the public raid was a result of a trademark infringement being levied against Trotter makers Changzhou First International Trade by U.S. startup Future Motion. Future Motion has accused Changzhou First International Trade for copying its patented products.
The Trotter single-wheel hoverboard design was very popular at the fair before the raid. The Trotter and Future Motion OneWheel’s board are very similar in both appearance and function.
The OneWheel retails at $1,500, while the Trotter costs $500. The American company had secured a patent for the design earlier this week. The OneWheel is also safer, with more effective braking and an additional automatic balance function.
“Would we have done this without the design patent being issued? The answer is we wouldn’t have bothered. If you can show the design patent drawing next to an accused product side by side, and they look identical, it helps your case,” Future Motion’s lawyer Shawn Koltich to Bloomberg.
The lawsuits go both ways: a Hangzhou company showed off its patents for electric skateboard technology at the fair and said that it plans to sue competitors. The hoverboard company, Hangzhou Chic Intelligent Technology, brought framed copies of its parents to the electronics show.
Source: inews.qq.com
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Those Americans probably just want to reverse engineer the Chinese technology. what goes around comes around.
Jan 15, 2016 22:04 Report Abuse
I'm starting to think that the Chinese are not actually human, but a race of semi-intelligent robots engineered by Mao's mad scientists after he accidentally starved the entire population to death.
Jan 12, 2016 14:40 Report Abuse
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