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Dbrand is suing Casetify for ripping off its Teardown designs (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Do they even have a chance at winning considering casetify is from China and they do not care about copyright infringement?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Try clicking the above link and reading the contents of the linked website.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Headquartered in Hong Kong, where a separate intellectual property regime that closely follows the English model is in place, different from mainland China.

https://law.asia/intellectual-property-protection-hong-kong/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hong Kong law means nothing anymore. The judges have all already been carefully picked and those they don’t like have been kicked out a long time ago. There is no rule of law in HK, the CCP will decide the outcome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Gosh there it is again, the inevitable comment every time Hong Kong is mentioned on Reddit. I know the city I’m born and living in well enough to tell others about how it is. And before you ask, i was there on June 12th and 16th, 2019.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Casetify has a US presence and sells in the US via retailers and everything. It’s not exactly easy or possible for them to avoid the US potentially ordering they halt sales and production of the items that infringe DBrand’s rights.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It appears they are suing the US entity. They do not say if they commenced actions overseas. If they only use the US entity then only that one will be affected.

They are HQ in Hong Kong and fortunately, still do have robust enforcement of copyright laws. You can enforce foreign judgments, particularly American ones through reciprocal enforcement arrangements. This is complicated and depends on which entities they sue.

Presumably their lawyers would have advised them on this properly and know the situation better than we do.