Chinese Segway clone company...buys Segway
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DAND214
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Give them time and we will be living in China West.
They have the money and most rich here want is, MORE money.
Dan
They have the money and most rich here want is, MORE money.
Dan
sk8norcal
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http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-19/segway-s-second-chance-in-china
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-09-10/segway-owner-claims-chinese-knockoffs-roam-u-s-streets
Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Segway Inc., maker of the self-balancing “people mover” that has struggled to expand beyond a niche market since its splashy debut 13 years ago, is now taking to suing its growing number of imitators.
The Inmotion transporter, promoted heavily at consumer electronics shows, as well as the WindRunner, Ninebot, FreeGo and Robstep are being targeted in a U.S. trade complaint filed yesterday. Closely held Segway and a firm controlled by inventor Dean Kamen are seeking to halt what they call a “widespread pattern of infringement” by the Chinese manufacturers.
They “duplicate, in some cases extremely closely, the design and operation of these Segway personal transporters,” Segway and Kamen’s Deka Products LP said. The companies “intend their products to largely if not completely mimic Segways’s personal transporters in operation.”
The complaint filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington lists at least six manufacturers and three distributors that Segway claims are infringing two patents related to the transporter controls, and two for the design of the machines. If Segway wins the case, the government could block the competing products made overseas from the U.S. market.
Millard Jacobs of Laurel Hill, North Carolina, who runs the roboscooters.com website, was one of the distributors named. He said in an interview he was told that the makers of the scooters he sells -- Shenzhen Inmotion Technologies Co., Robstep Robot Co. and Ninebot Inc. -- had developed their own technology.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-09-10/segway-owner-claims-chinese-knockoffs-roam-u-s-streets
Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Segway Inc., maker of the self-balancing “people mover” that has struggled to expand beyond a niche market since its splashy debut 13 years ago, is now taking to suing its growing number of imitators.
The Inmotion transporter, promoted heavily at consumer electronics shows, as well as the WindRunner, Ninebot, FreeGo and Robstep are being targeted in a U.S. trade complaint filed yesterday. Closely held Segway and a firm controlled by inventor Dean Kamen are seeking to halt what they call a “widespread pattern of infringement” by the Chinese manufacturers.
They “duplicate, in some cases extremely closely, the design and operation of these Segway personal transporters,” Segway and Kamen’s Deka Products LP said. The companies “intend their products to largely if not completely mimic Segways’s personal transporters in operation.”
The complaint filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington lists at least six manufacturers and three distributors that Segway claims are infringing two patents related to the transporter controls, and two for the design of the machines. If Segway wins the case, the government could block the competing products made overseas from the U.S. market.
Millard Jacobs of Laurel Hill, North Carolina, who runs the roboscooters.com website, was one of the distributors named. He said in an interview he was told that the makers of the scooters he sells -- Shenzhen Inmotion Technologies Co., Robstep Robot Co. and Ninebot Inc. -- had developed their own technology.
