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What is the TSA supposed to do with these other than auctioning them off?
In my opinion not make money of seized items. Recycle comes to mind.
Recycling perfectly good pocket knives would be rather wasteful.
The products here may be considered legally counterfeit for one or more reasons other than simply using the word mark APPLE. For example: (1) trademark or trade dress infringement if the product's decorative features (color, etc.) or packaging copies a registered trademark of Apple, (2) copyright infringement if the product contains copied Apple code without a license,(3) patent infringement if the product implements…
Copyright and patents don't make sense, obviously the CBP doesn't reverse-engineer on imported products. The CBP will only seize them if the case has been already litigated, which is not what's going on here. CBP claims they're counterfeits, so the remaining option is a trademark/trade dress infringement, or a design patent infringement. Now the questions boils down to: Does Apple own any trademark or design patent o…
Sidebar: Why has the AirPod design become so ubiquitous? I always thought they were the ugliest earbuds since earbuds became small. Is there some technical reason they have this design? Or do people actually like it? Or is it simply the Apple effect?
1. Apple removed the headphone jack. 2. Apple stopped giving out dongles in the box. 3. Apple limited others' ability to compete by including proprietary chips in iphone and airpods. 4. Apple marketed airpods as a status symbol. 5. People bought into the hype. Objectively, airpods are the worst wireless earbuds in the market on every single metric, but still command a premium price.
Objectively, airpods are the worst wireless earbuds in
the market on every single metric, but still command a
premium price.
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I'd be interested in a writeup of that as well. The cavalcade of stupidity and maliciousness that was the Verge PC Build debacle leads me to think some quite bad stuff has been going on behind the scenes.
I think that was more a case of "we need a PC build video, they're trending right now... ...hey Josh, you know about computers, right? " IMO, they should've done more due diligence first to avoid teeing off the super-elitist subset of enthusiast people
Interesting... apparently it qualifies as a counterfeit even though it doesn't say Apple anywhere on the box? Or is the image caption wrong - maybe they're counteirfeit OnePlus earbuds? Oh BTW, it's "seize", not "sieze" :)
Maybe not counterfeit, but you still can’t argue this design is stolen pretty much straight from Apple.
Right, just like how the iPhone design is stolen straight from the pocket PC. /s Apple doesn't own a product type just by using it.
Interesting... apparently it qualifies as a counterfeit even though it doesn't say Apple anywhere on the box? Or is the image caption wrong - maybe they're counteirfeit OnePlus earbuds? Oh BTW, it's "seize", not "sieze" :)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/i-before-e-exc...
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1. Apple removed the headphone jack. 2. Apple stopped giving out dongles in the box. 3. Apple limited others' ability to compete by including proprietary chips in iphone and airpods. 4. Apple marketed airpods as a status symbol. 5. People bought into the hype. Objectively, airpods are the worst wireless earbuds in the market on every single metric, but still command a premium price.
Objectively, airpods are the worst wireless earbuds in the market on every single metric, but still command a premium price. May be a good time too look up that the word "objectively" means.
So what exactly is the difference between those and the ones Amazon https://www.amazon.com/OnePlus-Buds-Wireless-Earbuds-Chargin... says I can get tomorrow for $79?
Now should Apple be able to get said all encompassing design patents? That’s a different debate.
