I'm being sued!!

[ahmedi]

Can anyone out there give me some help please? I won't name the company involved but I am a small cash and carry and I imported some shisha pens. Quite a few local businesses are selling them and they are popular as we have quite a few nightclubs here.

Got sent a letter saying they have an EU design patent on their diamond tip. I was really worried about this and had to spend money with my lawyer. He says I need to prove that a diamond tip was used before. He is not sure of this applies to the nicotine ones or just shisha.

Does anyone know if any brand used a diamond tip on a single use disposable in UK or Europe?

Really appreciate any help anyone can give me. I am really worried and I don't want to give up this profitable line because someone is bullying me.

Thank you all

[lal]

But how can you be sued? Its not you that's breached any design patent?

[Deleted]

Oct 24, 2013 17:27:07 GMT ahmedi said:

Can anyone out there give me some help please? I won't name the company involved but I am a small cash and carry and I imported some shisha pens. Quite a few local businesses are selling them and they are popular as we have quite a few nightclubs here.

Got sent a letter saying they have an EU design patent on their diamond tip. I was really worried about this and had to spend money with my lawyer. He says I need to prove that a diamond tip was used before. He is not sure of this applies to the nicotine ones or just shisha.

Does anyone know if any brand used a diamond tip on a single use disposable in UK or Europe?

Really appreciate any help anyone can give me. I am really worried and I don't want to give up this profitable line because someone is bullying me.

Thank you all

Seems to me your lawyer is asking you to do the job that you are employing him to do for you.

[fagin]

So who did they say the patent holder is?

Although I doubt it's a patent unless it has a function. What is a diamond tip? A shape, a logo, a diamond?

Sounds more like a trademark.

[Chrissie]

Hello ahmedi,

You are obviously a vendor & therefore need to apply for vendor status.

Vendors are not allowed to post in the new members board, so none of our registered vendors, who are most likely the ones that could help you the most, can reply to you.

To try to help you out, I'm going to move this thread to the general vaping board for now. However, do bear in mind that this forum is really not the place for prospective vendors to get assistance with their business ventures.

[Raffles]

So agree Chrissie... I hope ahmedi is an honest trader, but it does seem a very strange first post. ???

As you say, if he becomes an accredited vendor I'm sure he will be able to to get the advice he needs from our established vendors.

[fiddles]

Ten Motives sells them, shisha london sells them to name a couple

[fagin]

Sells what?

[syycoe]

NUCIG have the crystal glow cig a likes and bloody expensive and outrageous claims on their carto's...i cannot believe i started on their £100 cig a like starter( at least i did not pay for it )

[hiddenusername]

watch this happen to all the clone resellers in the not so distant future.

any business who is dealing in clones is not worth spending money with IMO, when they get taken by the lawyers your warranty for non clone stuff will go with it.

[fred]

Looks like this guy has one

Surely you're not selling clones of this for use in nightclubs?

Go on, be a devil, name that company. 

[Jaguar7777]

Chinese Patents?

Looser than a floozie at midnight in a brothel.

That's the reason we have so many "Knock off's" and Clones.

Ask Fasttech.


Jag. (My first big smile of the day ......)

[Deleted]

Oct 24, 2013 19:29:31 GMT Chrissie said:

Hello ahmedi,

You are obviously a vendor & therefore need to apply for vendor status.

Vendors are not allowed to post in the new members board, so none of our registered vendors, who are most likely the ones that could help you the most, can reply to you.

To try to help you out, I'm going to move this thread to the general vaping board for now. However, do bear in mind that this forum is really not the place for prospective vendors to get assistance with their business ventures.

I was tempted to point out this myself Chrissie but after the fuss concerning another new member on Wednesday I decided to simply give my thoughts on the question he posed  rather than be seen as being unwelcoming. 

[charon]

Oct 24, 2013 19:29:31 GMT Chrissie said:

Hello ahmedi,

You are obviously a vendor & therefore need to apply for vendor status.

Vendors are not allowed to post in the new members board, so none of our registered vendors, who are most likely the ones that could help you the most, can reply to you.

To try to help you out, I'm going to move this thread to the general vaping board for now. However, do bear in mind that this forum is really not the place for prospective vendors to get assistance with their business ventures.

+1 for this, however now as an error in his posting, we have had it confirmed that these cheapo kits are indeed "a very profitable line" in his own words.
Wonder how much they charge?

[hiddenusername]

Oct 25, 2013 0:51:01 GMT Jaguar7777 said:

Chinese Patents?

Looser than a floozie at midnight in a brothel.

That's the reason we have so many "Knock off's" and Clones.

Ask Fasttech.


Jag. (My first big smile of the day ......)

The Chinese don't care if you are sued for selling counterfeit goods in UK.

It's the British guy that will get fined/sent to jail for selling fake goods.