China's Cell Phone Pirates Are Bringing Down Middle Eastern Governments

Re:China's Cell Phone Pirates Are Bringing Down Middle Easte... by pja on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @05:19AM (#2656463)

I think any phone with the words "Nkia" or "Blockberry" on could reasonably be called counterfeit.

At the same time, I imagine that the buyers of these phones know exactly what they're getting, so whether the companies in question have really lost out is another question.

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Re:China's Cell Phone Pirates Are Bringing Down Middle Easte... by ars on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @05:23AM (#2656470)

Actually no, it needs to say the name properly to be counterfeit. (i.e. you have to claim to actually be the company, not merely imitate their goods).

Messing up the name makes it a knockoff. Basically if you can easily tell by looking who really made it then it's not counterfeit.

And either way it's certainly not "pirate" or "bandit".

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Re:China's Cell Phone Pirates Are Bringing Down Middle Easte... by etaty on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @07:38AM (#2656652)

I think the problem is that they don't own or have a license for the patents.

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Re:China's Cell Phone Pirates Are Bringing Down Middle Easte... by ars on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @08:06AM (#2656731)

If that were the case, then they would sue MediaTek.

Unlike the small manufacturers MediaTek is easy to find and it's a pretty large company.

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Re:China's Cell Phone Pirates Are Bringing Down Middle Easte... by sesqu on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @01:17PM (#2658034)

Near-matches suffice for trademark infringement, if not straight-up counterfeiting. I am unsure as to which one piracy refers to.

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