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A Fluke vai compensar a Sparkfun e oferecer-lhes um lote de
equipamentos de valor superior ...<br>
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ver:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/03/trademark-issue-will-cause-30000-worth-of-multimeters-to-be-destroyed/">http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/03/trademark-issue-will-cause-30000-worth-of-multimeters-to-be-destroyed/</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20-03-2014 12:06, João Condeço
wrote:<br>
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<p id="text-57873769" style="border:0px none;font-family:'Lucida
Grande',Arial,'Lucida Sans
Unicode',sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin:0px
0px 1.5em;outline:0px
none;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:19.5px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)">Sparkfun,
a hobbyist electronics retailer, recently received a letter
from U.S. Customs saying<span class=""> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sparkfun.com/news/1428" target="_blank"
style="border:0px
none;font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px
none;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none">a
shipment of 2,000 multimeters was being barred from entry
into the country</a>.</p>
<p style="border:0px none;font-family:'Lucida
Grande',Arial,'Lucida Sans
Unicode',sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin:0px
0px 1.5em;outline:0px
none;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:19.5px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)">The
reason? Trademark law. A company named Fluke holds<span
class=""> </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=75934005&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch"
target="_blank" style="border:0px
none;font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px
none;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none">a
trademark on multimeters</a><span class=""> </span>that have
a ‘contrasting yellow border.’ Sparkfun’s multimeters are a
yellowish<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://hamgear.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/5-in1-multimeter.jpg"
style="border:0px
none;font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px
none;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none"><img
moz-do-not-send="true" class="" alt="5-in1-multimeter"
src="https://hamgear.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/5-in1-multimeter.jpg?w=150&h=150"
style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); display:
inline; float: right; margin-left: 1.5em; max-width: 100%;
height: auto; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 1.5em;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 4px
4px 4px 4px; padding: 4px ! important;" width="150"
height="150"></a>orange, but it was enough for Customs to
stop the shipment. Returning the shipment is not an option
because of import taxes in China, so the multimeters must now
be destroyed.</p>
<p style="border:0px none;font-family:'Lucida
Grande',Arial,'Lucida Sans
Unicode',sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin:0px
0px 1.5em;outline:0px
none;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:19.5px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)">At
$15 per item, it’ll cost Sparkfun $30,000, plus the $150/hr
fee for destroying them. Sparkfun had no idea about the
trademark, and doesn’t mind changing the color, but they say
restrictions like these are a flaw in the trademark system.
“Small business does not have the resources to stay abreast of
all trademarks for all the products they don’t carry. If
you’re going to put the onus on the little guy to avoid
infringing IP then you shouldn’t need an army of consultants
or attorneys to find this information.”</p>
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Unicode',sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;margin:0px
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none;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:19.5px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)"><br>
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<p style="border:0px none;font-family:'Lucida
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none;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:19.5px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://hamgear.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/what-yellow-multimeters-destroy-them/">http://hamgear.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/what-yellow-multimeters-destroy-them/</a></p>
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none;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:19.5px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)">73's</p>
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Condeço</p>
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