[Sébastien]

Wenn dem so ist, würde mich die Quelle interessieren

Konstantinos Verdes. Ich stehe mit im Verteiler der Mail, die er gestern an das WCA Board und einige andere Personen geschickt hat.

Entweder haben sie über den eben angesprochenen Konflikt mit den Käufern gar nicht nachgedacht - oder sie haben drüber nachgedacht und es für unwichtig empfunden bzw. die Reaktionen nicht in dem aktuellen Maße erwartet.

Nun, Verdes geht ja schon seit langem gegen Patentsverletzungen vor: Chinese 6x6x6, 7x7x7, 9x9x9, 11x11x11, Maru 4x4x4. Nur dass sie damit diesmal scheinbar in ein Wespennest gestochen haben.
Konstantinos Verdes hat diese heftige Reaktion in jedem Fall nicht erwartet.

Ich zitiere mal:

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.