[Sébastien]

Wenn Verdes recht behält in diesem Fall, dann ist die Firma einfach kriminell, ganz einfach.

Recht mit was genau? Dass der Cube das Patent verletzt, oder dass er "kopiert" wurde? Kann ja auch sein, dass Dayan wirklich selbst auf sein Design gekommen ist, ausgehend von der Idee mit der kleinen Kugel. Wuerd ich dann nicht kriminell nennen.

Macht das einen Unterschied? In jedem Fall kommt eine Patentsverletzung heraus. Ob das nun mutwillig oder durch ungenügendes Prüfen vorhandener Patente geschehen ist, das ist doch letztlich egal.

Wo ich grad schon schreibe zitier ich hier mal den gleichen Ausschnitt wir bei Speedcube.de:

The last 18 months we are being hit by an uneven, unethical, daily attack from tens of companies from China copying whatever they can, stealing us from everywhere , producing higher and lowered v-cubes, distracting us from our goals, even claiming originilaty in China... Almost every 2 months a new clone is born. Hundreds of Chinese and tens of European and US based sellers are making money on our back and trying every day to sell the clones through web and in the market. In China and Asia the clones are everywhere.
As you know we have invested a huge amount of money to protect the V-CUBE invention,(that we haven't amortize not even the 1% due to the clones and the low margins), and we are now using this advantage that the patents are offering to us.
We have developed a team working -at least- on reporting fake items from websites that are arising like rain from everywhere. Some good Friends are usually sending us the clones and after inspecting them, we start reporting through PayPal, EBay, credit card companies and in every way that we can. Thank God that these companies developed an Acceptable Use Policy and help really much the companies that their IPR is being violated. They have their own, private, lawful system and are taking actions against the infringers that we -of course- don't control, neither know even when the items are finally removed. Their legal department is huge and acting solely without asking us what to do...
We are just reporting the links or the auctions.
The same happened with this Dayan cube. We inspected it, saw the infringment and we started to reporting it. We are doing it for almost two months, we didn't start before 2 days. The situation that is happening these last days is very sad, unexpected, evil, impolite and disappointing.