Huaqiang North is the biggest electronics trade center in the world and is named The City
of Copycat. After the government’s cracking down on copycat mobile phone in 2011, most
of the copycat company withdraw and some of them begin to build their own brands.
However, there are some counterfeit mobile phones and substandard phones circulating
on the market.
Counterfeit and substandard phone are the same in the following significant ways: the IMEIs on both categories of mobile phones are likely to be invalid; both of them avoid the payment of patent royalties to the rightful intellectual right holders;both use inferior or used chipsets and other components; and both fail to comply with applicable country legal requirements
regrading sale and distribution of these devices. There is, however, an important difference, between these two subsets of black market mobile phones.
A counterfeit mobile phone is a product, which explicitly infringes the trademark or design
of an original or authentic product. A counterfeit mobile phone copies the trademark(brand) of an original well-recognized brand, copies the form factor of the original product, and/or copies the
packaging of the original product. In other words, a counterfiet mobile phoneis an identical
copy of the original brand or similar to the original brand( in terms of copying the trademark or the design) for all practical purposes, it can be considered to be a copy of the original
branded product. This includes, for example, those products which adopt a label felt to be
amusing and humorous by playing with the established brand name(e.g.’Nokla’ or ‘Sunsang’).
A substandard mobile phone, on the other hand, is a category of mobile phone which may
resemble an original brand but is different enough to make it difficult definitively to classify
this product as counterfeit. It includes, for example: White box products which may appear
sililar in form factor to the authentic brand, but carry no explicit branding(i.e. Do not explicitly counterfeit a legitimate brand, nor apply their own brand); and, small brand products which have an unknown or little known brand that attempt to copy other brands or form factors
from original products.
Fake phone can pose a health risk to consumers who use the device. Other drawbacks,
such as network disruption and poor product quality. With counterfeiters evading taxation,
many countries are losing a great deal of revenue, including sales and value added taxes aswell as various duties and associated government charges. So please make sure the
phone you purchase are genuine.
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