Two US Federal soldier marshalsraided the booth of a Taiwanese hoverboard companyearlier today at CES . The badged law enforcement agents gather all of the company ’s one - wheeled “ Trotter ” galvanizing skateboards , as well as all related to merchandising materials . It was striking .
This all happened despite the Trotter ’s plain popularity with trade show attendees . But the reasonableness for the unusually public raid , according to Bloomberg , was an ongoing title of trademark misdemeanor being impose by Silicon Valley startup Future Motion against Changzhou First International Trade Company , God Almighty of the Trotter and proprietor of the stall that got foray into . Future Motion claims to have already patent a rather like galvanising skateboard design , right down to the unmarried wheel in the center , called the “ Onewheel . ”
succeeding Motion received a patent for the engineering that powers its Onewheel board back in August , and very latterly — earlier this calendar week , to be exact — the American company also secured a patent of invention for its design . Future Motion get word of what it describe to Bloomberg as the “ clone ” ware last yr , and by December had formally requested that Changzhou cease deal the Trotter . A next Motion lawyer file a legal asking yesterday to get the Trotter circuit card off the CES floor and that led to today ’s foray .
The Onewheel boards go for $ 1,500 , while the Trotter control panel were being market to retailers at $ 500 a pappa . So you’re able to understand why one company need the aver emulator to get the heck out of Vegas .
[ Bloomberg ]
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