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I don't know the laws elsewhere, but here in Europe trademark holders absolutely have the right to demand counterfeit products be seized and destroyed. Even if
by chithanh 5y ago
I don't know the laws elsewhere, but here in Europe trademark holders absolutely have the right to demand counterfeit products be seized and destroyed. Even if the owner acquired them in good faith. Also it would be interesting whether any compatible chips exist that use FTDI USB VID but were not marked with the FTDI logo.
Of course this kind of vigilante justice by FDTI is illegal, but who is going to press charges if that means they will get their devices taken from them and destroyed?
- marcan_42 5y agoRight, we're talking about clones that don't use FTDI's logo. I don't know if they exist, but they well might. The point is that the VID itself doesn't have any legal protection.