cfc Posted November 15, 2012 Posted November 15, 2012 They knocked off many, off the top of my head they copied: Zamperlas Star Flyer Zamperlas Balloon Race Zamperlas Discovery Zamperlas Telecombat And many more (there is so many it's hard to list them all) Link to Zamperlas site: http://www.zamperla.com/en/ Link to Golden Horeses site: http://goldenhorserides.com/en/index.html Yet they've never knocked off a Huss Topple Tower. Go figure.
Meteornotes Posted November 15, 2012 Posted November 15, 2012 ^That is a stunner, isn't it? I was reading an article recently (which sadly I cannot find now), that if the US forced China to follow all international copyright & trademark laws it would mean many billions of dollars a year for the US. Of course, getting them to cooperate with this is going to be, um, difficult. Just as I imagine how hard it's going to be for Zamperla to collect on this judgement. Still, I think it's pretty cool they got this through our legal system in their favor, given how obvious it was this company was ripping off their IP. dt
ArizonaGuy Posted November 16, 2012 Posted November 16, 2012 I am surprised to see that it was Zamperla making the claims though, like others have mentioned, I thought that it would have been Vekoma. Vekoma was probably flattered that someone actually wanted to copy some of their creations maybe that's why they didn't file suit.
cfc Posted November 16, 2012 Posted November 16, 2012 (edited) ^The Golden Horse clones actually make the Vekoma SLCs look good. Why would Vekoma want to stop them? Edited November 16, 2012 by cfc
WFChris Posted November 16, 2012 Posted November 16, 2012 Does anybody think this happened at IAAPA because they are trying to sell their bogus product to an American market? I don't know of any Chinese knockoffs in the States but Elissa mentioned that there are some in Mexico...do they sell these much anywhere outside of China? I just feel that if the sales were kept in the country there would be less that our government could do about it, but the moment they step foot over here is the moment we clamped down on it. Yeah? Nah?
kidcoaster 2 Posted November 16, 2012 Posted November 16, 2012 Does anybody think this happened at IAAPA because they are trying to sell their bogus product to an American market? I think you are right, while in China our goverment can't do anything about. But the second they set up shop in america they are in the jurisdiction of our legal system. But im surprised IAAPA doesn't have any rules in the organization about this behavior.
larrygator Posted November 17, 2012 Posted November 17, 2012 It happened at this IAAPA show because it is an Amercian lawsuit and this show occurred in the United States.
David H Posted November 17, 2012 Posted November 17, 2012 I'd imagine that was the entire point of the suit anyways. To stop them from selling things at IAAPA and US trade shows. And maybe to stop them from moving more into the Central and South American markets. After all, why else would an Italian company sue a Chinese company in the Florida court system?
A.J. Posted November 17, 2012 Posted November 17, 2012 If it's any consolation, the Suspended Looping Coaster isn't listed on their website anymore...
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