What Every Startup Need to Know About IP in China • Hacker News Board

Re: What Every Startup Need to Know About IP in China

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Post by tlear » Fri, Sep 05, 2014, 3:32 PM UTC

est wrote: post #19

jacquesm wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is one of the reasons why I will probably never again do a hardware start-up.

Lemme give you a counter example. Chinese copied Neato or irobot Roomba, their hardware was even superior and price is 30% as much, but ultimately failed as a product. Because the route planing algorithm is completely shit. You often found it stuck or running out of power. Neato or iRobot does not sell in China, Chinese users actually pays extra to get one. And they are happily doing so. The moral of the story? Chine…

Kindof surprising that they did not manage to obtain the routing algorithm of the Roomba.

Re: What Every Startup Need to Know About IP in China

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Post by gingerlime » Fri, Sep 05, 2014, 4:25 PM UTC

I'm curious about copyright infringement in china and what practical options there are. Hope it's not too OT.

We're building an anatomy learning platform[0], and produce original illustrations and videos that cost us a lot of time and money to create. When we see copies on US or EU website we can use DMCA or EU takendown notices, which usually work. In China our emails were pretty much ignored...

Now we're not some huge company, we're a small bootstrapped startup which isn't even ramen-profitable yet (mostly due to large expenses on content-creation). We cannot even afford a lawyer locally, let alone someone who can represent us in China. I'm wondering if anyone has some tips or experience in this area?

(all being said, the number of infringements we know about is pretty small, but it's worrying nonetheless)

[0] www.kenhub.com

Re: What Every Startup Need to Know About IP in China

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Post by nmattisson » Sat, Sep 06, 2014, 4:22 AM UTC

michaelmior wrote: post #17

jacquesm wrote: post #15

> Chinese trademark registration costs are typical internationally. To the OP, this sentence does not parse or I fail to understand what you mean with it.

Perhaps it's suggesting that trademark registration costs in China are on par with those of other countries?

Poorly worded perhaps, but michelmior's interpretation is correct.