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Authorities do swoop in Feira de Las Vegas technology to confiscate electric skateboards

Following a complaint by the US start-up Future Motions , the authorities confiscated the electric skateboards Chinese Changzhou First International Trade, which were on display at CES 2016, one of the world’s most important technology fairs.

In full Fair the Las Vegas Consumer Technology, authorities seized all items in the display of Changzhou First International Trade, which marketed electric skateboards – known as “hoverboard.” – very similar to onewheel, patented creation of an American start-up

Write to Bloomberg that until the arrival of authorities to Changzhou First International Trade was having great success with their electric skateboards, the Trotter, that instead of having two wheels, one at each end, as the “hoverboards” Popular, has only one large wheel in the middle

The seizure is the result of action by the Future Motion, a start-up in Silicon Valley, which claims to have invented and patented an electric skateboard -. onewheel – able to balance alone, with only a wheel and with a very similar design to what was to be presented at the Fair of Consumer Technology Las Vegas, CES 2016.

The US company sent six people to keep up with the authorities in this raid, says Bloomberg, adding that the Association for Consumer Technology, organizer of CES 2016, declined to comment, and so did the person responsible for kiosk Changzhou First International Trade in shows Las Vegas.

One of the elements of the authorities, Lynzey Donahue, merely tell Bloomberg that were being fulfilled court orders.

onewheel Skateboard Future Motion is a creation Kyle Doerksen, whose company owns the technology patents and design of this device, which prevents competition to do something like that takes the public to confuse this with the original onewheel.

“We would do [this complaint ] without the product design patent? The answer is that we would not have bothered. If you can show the patented design side of the product to the concerned side by side, it helps to your cause, “explained Shawn Kolitch, attorney Future Motions, told Bloomberg.

The Future Motion found the product Changzhou First International Trade last year, when onewheel user disclosed the information online in a forum. In December, Shawn Kolitch sent a letter to Chinese company demanding to stop selling the product, never get an answer. The lawyer for the Future Motions He returned to the charge the day before the opening of the CES exhibition space in 2016 directly but failed to dissuade the Chinese company. So in Wednesday, January 6, the US company filed a claim in court to prevent Trotter were displayed at the show in Las Vegas.

For Kyle Doerksen, inventor of onewheel, get the material from the Chinese company was removed from the exhibition not only lock what it considers as illegitimate competition, as it protects reputation of the entire industry of electric skateboards, whose sector has been penalized by news of poor quality material.

“If consumers start looking for the industry to be full of bad quality products, low-cost products, this is reflected negatively at all, “Doerksen said, quoted by Bloomberg. “We hate when someone decides to poison the well,” he said.