Decidimos que por ser inicio de semana, el post de hoy iba a ser positivo.
Se chingaron a un pirachino!
Snowshoe firm gives pirate the boot
Outdoor gear makers get tough on knockoffs
By JOHN COOK
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
[Nota originalmente identificada por Jamilton. Comentarios y algunas de las imagenes insertadas por The Mexican Loco]
Cascade Designs Inc. is known for developing some of the most innovative outdoor gear in the world, from Therm-A-Rest sleeping pads to fast-drying Packtowels.
So when the 33-year-old Seattle manufacturer discovered that its patented snowshoes were being copied by a Chinese manufacturer, it immediately sprang into action.
[Eso chingones!!! Una felicitacion a Cascade Designs por no quedarse con los brazos cruzados y aplicarles toda la fuerza de la ley a estos pincheschinos piratas. Quieren felicitar a Cascade por demandar a un pinchechino??? Manden un correo al contacto de relaciones publicas de la empresa haciendo click aqui]Friday, the company filed suit in U.S. District Court in Seattle against United Industrial Ltd. -- a Chinese company that showed up at last week's Summer Market Outdoor Retailer exhibition in Salt Lake City with snowshoes that looked almost identical to those from Cascade Designs.
[En esta foto presentamos el cuerpo de la evidencia. En la mano izquiera, Lee Getzewich (quien trabaja para Cascade Designs) muestra un prducto original de Cascade. En la derecha, una copia China hecha con material que segun reporta Lee Getzewich, es demasiado sensible y en una situacion extrema podria facilmente romperse dejando al usuario en problemas]
"It was a dead-ringer knockoff," said Cascade Designs Corporate Secretary Pete Haggerty, a 23-year veteran of the company. "Every protected feature they copied." The only thing missing: the patent number that is molded into every pair of Denali snowshoes that rolls off the assembly line at Cascade Designs' Sodo facility.
[Como veran, Cascade se vio inteligente y a sabiendas que alla afuera en el mundo real hay chingos de pincheschinos, se protegio de manera correcta y por eso se pudo chingar a estos cuachas]
According to the suit, United Industrial Vice President Daniel Fang [alias el pinchechino cuacha pirata] allegedly offered to sell each pair of snowshoes for $15, with a 3 percent discount for orders in excess of 10,000 pairs. The wholesale price for the Denali Classic snowshoe is $75, with a retail price of $130, said Jeff Bowman, Cascade Designs' vice president of marketing. ["lo mismo pelo mas balato"]
Nos la pelamos, pero conseguimos el e-mail de este pinchechino. Le quieren escribir???? YO se que si! Por eso se los pasamos con gusto y ahi nos lo saludan!!! Para hostigar a este pinchechino, hagan click aqui! o aqui! o aqui! o aqui! pero escribanle!!! jajaja
[En esta foto una mujer adulta arma los productos de Cascade. No pudimos conseguir una similar de la compañia pinchechina... Seguramente es porque su linea de produccion esta constituida por puros pobres niños de 2 a 10 años que despues usan como trapeadores. Asi es, como trapeadores! No me creen? Hagan click aqui!]
In an interview yesterday, Fang said he got the snowshoe designs from Germany and did not know that they were patented.
"We will stop," said Fang. "We do not know patents in U.S." On Saturday, Fang sent an e-mail to Bowman promising not to sell the snowshoes in the United States and asking that the company drop the suit. He also offered to become Cascade Designs supplier.
[Chingado!!! no les suena extremadamente parecida a la respuesta que dio el puto de Giordon respecto a volarse el logo del IMSS? (para verla hagan click aqui)
"Uy si, no sabiamos... y es un diseño que nos dijeron que era original y pues quien sabe y se lo juro por mi madrecita que esta en el cielo que no soy un pinche pirata"]
Cascade Designs was not the only manufacturer to stumble upon Chinese knockoffs at the Outdoor Retailer exhibition -- one of the biggest trade shows in the industry with 925 exhibitors and about 20,000 attendees.
Vashon-based K2 Sports was looking into whether its Atlas and Tubbs snowshoe lines were copied by United Industrial. And Clearfield, Utah-based Petzl America discovered four separate companies, including United Industrial, that were attempting to sell counterfeit versions of its Tikka LED headlamp.
[Seguramente el ojete de Daniel Fang, vicepresidente de United International (a quien les recuerdo pueden escribirle haciendo click aqui) le va a decir la misma historia a todas las demas compañias que se piratea... "Ay perdon, no sabia que soy un rata que copia todo y luego es tan estupido que lleva sus productos pirata a una expo en donde estan tambien todos los originales"]
Petzl America President Roody Rasmussen said he spent much of the show getting those companies to sign agreements that they would remove the products from their catalogues and stop marketing the headlamps in North America.
"We are serious about defending the trademark and the patent," Rasmussen said. "It is time to take a stand."
But Rasmussen also expressed doubts that he could stop the companies from distributing the products -- especially in markets overseas.
"There's really too much distance between the manufacturer and ourselves and too many middlemen in between," said Rasmussen, who has discovered versions of his company's headlamps for sale at half price in Canadian shops.
In addition to the Petzl products, Rasmussen said he noticed that competing headlamps -- including those from Princeton Tec and Black Diamond -- were listed in some of the distributors' catalogues at the trade show.
Rasmussen said the problem with Chinese counterfeiters has become widespread in the outdoor gear industry. "It just keeps popping up," he said.
[Ese es el pedo... por cada chino pirata que te chingas, salen 10 mas... estos cabrones son como los Gremlins cuando les echan agua!]
Cascade Designs' Bowman agreed, saying that on occasion the company has confronted Chinese companies at trade shows that have measured the dimensions of tents or snapped digital photographs of camping gear.
"There is an epidemic of small manufacturers from China coming in and finding the latest products and then knocking them off exactly," said Bowman. "Having access to our new technologies months ahead of time is just not acceptable."
[Que conste que no fui YO el que lo dijo, sino el Sr. Bowman (luego me acusan de racista y la madre)... los pincheschinos son una epidemia]
Peter Devin, director of the Outdoor Retailer show, said it is attempting to address the issue by limiting cameras and taking a closer look at exhibitors. He said this was the first time that manufacturers have served lawsuits and cease-and-desist orders at the show.
"Any kind of a market like this, which is so large and so big, we really need to do as much as we can to make sure that the products are completely legal," said Devin, who anticipates new policies for the upcoming show in January. "Knockoffs are always going to be around, but when dealing with a patent infringement that is a huge problem."
[Compadre, controlar eso es bien facil... nomas no vuelvas a invitar chinos a tus expos!!!]
Cascade Designs has encountered these problems before. In the early 1990s, a Taiwanese company started distributing a version of the company's Therm-A-Rest sleeping pad in North America, said Haggerty. Cascade Designs filed suit in U.S. District Court and presented the case to the International Trade Commission, but in the end Haggerty said neither party was satisfied with the outcome.
[Que raro que en los 90s tuvieran un problema similar... y con OTROS chinos... que casualidad!]
"It was outrageously expensive," he said.
In the most recent lawsuit, Cascade Designs is asking for an injunction that would prevent United Industrial from violating the patents. It also is planning to send Fang a cease-and-desist letter that would prevent him from distributing in North America, Europe and Japan -- where Cascade Designs owns patents on the snowshoes.
It also filed suit against Grand International Exhibition Co., which helps Chinese companies secure booths, logistical support and other services at trade shows.
[Interrumpimos esta noticia para recordarles que la pinchechina Marylene (fotografias aqui incluidas) sigue buscando marido. Algun valiente se apunta? Quieren contactarla para que les cocine Perro a la Szechuan? Compren a esta damita y haganla su esposa china haciendo click aqui (si se atreven)!]
[Ah! Y antes de que empiecen los trolls a joder... PINCHESCHINOS no promueve la prostitucion. Si no pueden darse cuenta que el incluir a esta vieja horrible que se trata de vender por internet es una pieza humoristica, la neta se maman! PINCHESCHINOS nunca apoyaria que uno de nuestros distinguidos usuarios acabara teniendo que llamar a ese mounstrito su mujer!!! Volvamos a la noticia...]
Piracy represents a big problem in the relationship between the United States and China. Counterfeit copies of software, books, music and DVDs are widely distributed throughout the country, with a 90 percent piracy rate accounting for sales losses of $2.5 billion last year, according to the International Intellectual Property Alliance. Interpol estimates that 7 percent of global trade, or $512 billion, now involves counterfeit products.
[No solo se trata de software, libros, musica y DVDs... dense una vuelta por nuestros archivos para que vean la cantidad de mamadas que se piratean]
In testimony before Congress three months ago, IIPA President Eric Smith said China has failed to reduce piracy rates.
"China cannot exempt itself from the rules," Smith said.
David Bachman [que no debe de ser confundido con David Beckham], a professor at the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies, said China has not improved its piracy rates over the past decade [NOMBRE!!! Que sorpresa!].
"In terms of legislation and beefing up penalties, the central government has tried to be responsive," said Bachman. "But it has had no noticeable affect to the degree at which products are ripped off. ... This is not an issue that is going to go away anytime soon."
The Bush administration has taken steps to address the problem, setting up Strategy Targeting Organized Piracy or STOP! in October 2004. As part of the effort, the initiative is attempting to dismantle criminal enterprises that steal intellectual property, remove fake products from supply chains and educate businesses about the issue. It has established a Web site at www.stopfakes.gov and a toll-free number at 866-999-HALT, which as of mid-June had received 305 calls. [Yo tengo una tactica mucho mas efectiva que proponerle al gobierno gringo... las palabras "Afganistan" e "Irak" vienen a mi mente]
Bowman said Cascade Designs will continue to pursue those who tread on its patents, whether tents, water filters or snowshoes. "We are here to manufacture products and protect our intellectual property, and we would like to preserve the jobs for people in Seattle," he said. "We are not about to give that away easily."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/236892_snowshoe17.html?source=rssAh, antes de que se me olvide... si le van a escribir al pinchechino que se pirateo a Cascade, haciendo click aqui y les responde, copien la respuesta y compartanla con nosotros en la seccion de comentarios de este post. Nosotros ya le escribimos y en cuanto sepamos del guey se los compartiremos.
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