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CES is full of wild sights, but you don't often see US Marshals raid a display booth.
On Thursday, gadget lovers were treated to the sight of federal law enforcement officials packing up a booth run by Changzhou First International Trade Co., which makes a one-wheeled skateboard called the Trotter.
The raid was prompted by an emergency motion for injunctive relief filed by California-based Future Motion, which makes a similar board that balances over a single wheel, imaginatively called the One Wheel. The raid was earlier reported by Bloomberg.
The Marshals' actions highlights tension at the country's biggest consumer gadget tradeshow over cheap knock-offs and copy cats. The annual Las Vegas tradeshow often features bargain basement tech that appears to closely resemble existing products, some of which are protected by patents.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by CirclesInSand on Saturday January 09 2016, @08:24PM
If I invented something
You didn't. Thousands of years of human research invented it. And if someone actually competent intended on creating your product, they could do it in a quarter of the time and half the cost because they are more educated in those thousands of years of human research. You are mistaken in thinking that you are intelligent enough to invent something that a competent person couldn't do just as well or better.
I would like to recoup some of the time spent testing
All designers have to do testing. Being first or last doesn't change that.
and also would prefer to see that someone in another country doesn't introduce a product that looks... just like mine.
And I wants hugs from every pretty girl I meet. So what?
All I know is that if this is a true case of copying his idea
Again, this thing thinking that an idea has market value. It doesn't. Products have market value. Go to a business and try to sell them an idea. "I have this idea..." and they'll kick you out. Go to a business and say "I want to make..." and they might hear you out.
Being first to market is enough of an advantage. If you have good prices, good options, good customer experience, these things that actually compose BUSINESS skills, then you won't have to worry about people copying you. If you are first, and they can't provide a better offer to customers, then you'll make money. If you are first, but you show up with crap, then you deserve to go broke. Patents are just forcing people to buy crap.