China is very good to copy but to create something new from nothing hmmm it's more difficult!!!
You make a really good point. There are zero design cues. The side of that car looks like a wall. No flavor at all.
lol, I am not sure if that's true anymore.. in the 80s may be.. but definitely from 2000s and beyond. Also, check on Chinese patents vs. US patents, there have been a surpass from Chinese being first in patents application. Now, some may say Chinese patents are useless and motivated by other things.. which MAY be true.. but the counter on the US patents is also true... i.e. can we for certain say all US patents has commercial value and not motivated by financial incentives.. may be not all patents, but some certainly are.
Really getting off track here but China filing patents doesnt mean squat. They are the number one nation for stealing IP from other countries. When someone files a patent application here in the US (and probably anywhere else), after 18 months it’s automatically published and there’s a guy in China viewing the application for all it’s worth. It sucks but that’s what they do.
Who knows who beat who. But Fisker was granted a patent on April 30 of 2021 for the rotating screen here in the US. So if the BYD came to US shores, that car could not present that feature without infringement. I mean they could, but then the whole cease and desist thing would start. Ugh. Some things aren’t worth fighting for. In my opinion, that would be one of them. Just my opinion.
DAMMIT!
lol. Let’s agree to disagree. Let’s just say in some aspects the Chinese are definitely having a leg up against the Americans. I will leave it at that.Really getting off track here but China filing patents doesnt mean squat. They are the number one nation for stealing IP from other countries. When someone files a patent application here in the US (and probably anywhere else), after 18 months it’s automatically published and there’s a guy in China viewing the application for all it’s worth. It sucks but that’s what they do.
Let‘s say I invent anti-gravity with a tin can, a brown crayon and a horseshoe magnet. I only have enough money to file in the US. That Chinese guy working for IP stealers-R-Us runs to his boss and steals (lawfully because I couldn’t file in China) the design, and runs to the Chinese patent lawyers and files in every country possible to have the “keys” to produce and protect it. So I have the US, and Chin Ho gets every country on Earth worth filing in. So yeah, they file more patents. My 2 patent attorneys have taught me tons of stuff over the years. I have 4 patents and another one in process (in the automotive world and Covid proof this time). Boy have I learned a few things
The patent processes are extremely complex and mind boggling about how much you need to know when filing for a patent. That‘s why patent lawyers have to pass 2 bar exams, it’s that much crap they have to know. I have heard that filing in China is a joke. I mean you have to have big serious money (and Chinese respect) to have a patent seriously enforced over there. And it’s the same with Mexico too, or so the rumor….🌮 which makes me think I may have Taco Bell for lunch…..
