[TenTec] Ten Tec custom enclosures comment...

[Ham in a box]

YES!   And... if the fountain pen business is any clue, they have few or 
no scruples about patent infringement.  I have a bunch of high quality 
Parker pens, and a number of $5 Chinese knock offs that have fooled the 
local crowd, including a local merchant.  I had clients in the tool and 
die business that just knew they were doomed when they received an 
order, even from a US address and Occidental name, for EXACTLY TWO 
machines.   They take one apart and reverse engineer it, and leave the 
other one standing as a model so they always know hot it all goes 
together.  Sometimes buy through a "straw man" by which an apparently 
disinterested third party will purchase the item, without disclosing the 
identity of the ultimate purchaser.

So, even without drawings, they often reverse engineer or just copy 
stuff at will.  Intentional patents don't mean much to them.

My friends from Detroit in the auto business say the Chinese government 
seems to encourage that sort of thing, especially for products that are 
destined for the Chinese domestic market, and not sold overseas or in 
the intentional trade.   Unfortunately, those items don't always remain 
in the domestic market, and are often sold on eBay and other 
international markets.  Example:  Hero Model 616 Doctor pen is a dead 
ringer for a 1950s Parker '51" with hooded nib and the variation in the 
Parker arrow pocket clip is so small it IS confusingly similar, but what 
can ya do?


--------------  JR -------------------------------

On 5/25/2014 5:18 PM, Bob McGraw - K4TAX wrote:

> If China want to build Kenwood, ICOM, Yaesu, Elecraft, Tentec, FLEX and
> others, likley they have means to obtain all the required files and
> proceed with their manufacturing and distribution.
>
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