A news item just crossed our desk about Chinese motorcycle exports. Chinese officials were quoted as saying they intended to rectify the disordered export market resulting in low profits for the Chinese motorcycle companies. You need to remember, and as the news item reminds us, this "disordered" market has been the number one exporter of motorcycles worldwide for five years in … [Read more...]
Business in a flat world
Way back in April I mentioned this book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, as a good way to understand the new global business environment. With Chinese growth, GM cutting 30,000 employees and all of the other happenings, everyone else is reading the book now, too. It's #4 on Amazon. As I said back then, good book. I recommend it. … [Read more...]
Counterfeit motorcycles seized at Milan show
The Italian finance police have seized 11 counterfeit mopeds at the Milan show after complaints from a Czech company (which I presume is Blata) over the fakes. Three Chinese citizens and one Italian were charged with patent violations. The motorcycles were perfect copies and even had the company trademark. The number of Chinese counterfeits is rising and Blata, for one, has … [Read more...]
GM settles with Chery over name and design issues
In another longstanding lawsuit with a Chinese company, General Motors has settled with Chery, the company producing a copycat car with a similar name to Chevy. Details were not disclosed. Malcolm Bricklin, who is planning to import the Chery (or whatever it's going to be called now), is moving ahead with plans to bring the car to the U.S. via Auto Insider … [Read more...]
Yamaha settles with Patriot
The other day we mentioned the lawsuit Yamaha had against Patriot motorcycles and Yamoto motorcycles of China for copying Yamaha's products. Looks like they settled with Patriot, however the lawsuit against Yamoto still stands. via Roadracing World … [Read more...]
Yamaha suing Patriot Motorcycles over Yamoto
There's an interesting lawsuit going on between Yamaha Motor Corporation and Patriot Motorcycles Corporation over the offroad motorcycles and ATVs sold by Patriot under the Yamoto brand name. Yamoto is a Chinese company making what is alleged to be a knockoff of Yamaha motorcycles, using both a similar name, design and color scheme that Yamaha says is intended to confuse the … [Read more...]
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