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How can Xiaomi is not sued yet?
by tuananh 10y ago
How can Xiaomi is not sued yet?
- romanovcode 10y agoAmerican jurisdiction has no power in China.
- argonaut 10y agoNot true. If Xiaomi sells anything in the US, they can definitely be sued.
- kyriakos 10y agothats why they are not selling in the US in the first place
- contingencies 10y agoUS consumers are bankrupt by definition anyway... even US companies have to offer them payment plans to make a sale. Just look at the cellphone market!
- argonaut 10y agoin the first place. They will eventually sell in the US.
- pritambaral 10y agoMaybe not this — or other ... err, controversial — devices, then.
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoCompanies can sue wherever they do business, xiaomi loses its Chinese advantage if it wants to do biz in any other country outside of China.
- forwhat 10y agofor what should be sued? Squares with lightly round edges? Oh, using "Air" in a notebook's name to suggest that it's very light :).
- biot 10y agoMacbook Air... Notebook Air... I can definitely see that consumers might find the similarity confusing given that they're in the same category of goods and services.
- babuskov 10y agoGiven how strong and prominent Apple logo is on their laptops, I don't think anyone would get confused about that.
- DiabloD3 10y agoApple v. Samsung was over chromed rounded corners on phones; a series of cases in multiple countries, and this war between the two still isn't over. So yeah, they've convinced multiple courts in multiple jurisdictions in multiple countries that yes, consumers are, paraphrased from their words, "pretty stupid and get confused easily."
- biot 10y agoIf Burger King introduced a new burger called the "Large Mac", how prominent the "golden arches" logo is for McDonald's doesn't factor at all into whether or not this is trademark infringement. Same goes for this: is there the possibility of confusion between "Macbook Air" and "Netbook Air"? Let's say Joe Consumer heard a radio/podcast advertisement for the new "Netbook Air" (obviously there is zero chance of seeing a logo for such audio media) -- is there the possibility Joe would associate that product with Apple? That's the kind of thing a jury would need to decide.
- riffraff 10y ago> Squares with lightly round edges? to be fair, that is what Apple sued Samsung for, and it won :(
- wizzard0 10y agoMaybe because "many of Xiaomi products — particularly its first forays into new categories — are China-only affairs"? Also, visual similarities do not always translate into legally-pursuable patent violations, or similar.