Furniture plagiarism incident re-caused disputes, driven by interests

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in the furniture leader in public talk about original, hot discussion of design at the same time, the furniture industry burst plagiarism incident is still common. The plagiarism dispute between furniture enterprises has become a persistent disease in the industry, which has not been cured for a long time. Recently, Ya Zhen furniture into the Milan World Expo China Pavilion products are alleged to be suspected of copying the work of Song Weijian, the chief designer of micro-construction design, a time to blow up the furniture circle an uproar.
Ya Zhen plagiarism incident review
This time Ya Zhen furniture plagiarism incident, Song Weijian pointed out on Weibo, Ya Zhen furniture in talks with him in the case of unsuccessful cooperation, unauthorized imitation of his original furniture design, and "Chinese design" in the name of the Milan World Expo China Pavilion. Song Weijian excitedly wrote on Weibo: "Designers who make sins, in order to make a little progress, have to find themselves in thousands of cases a little different." Just for this little bit different, may have worked hard all their lives may not be able to find, when the designer is not easy to find a little bit of their own results, very much hope to get a little respect.
However, Ya Zhen furniture responded that more than 70 pieces of furniture entering the China Pavilion of the World Expo were co-created by Ya Zhen and Tsinghua Academy of Art, as for the furniture alleged to be "plagiarized" is one of the styles of the overall series of design, not plagiarism.
details of the recent furniture plagiarism door
from 2012 to date, furniture companies because of plagiarism disputes. At the 2012 Shanghai Furniture Show, Beijing Inovy Squire Furniture identified several models of Mesdell's products as suspected of plagiarism, and was later sued by Mastell for compensation. In 2013, at the Shenzhen Furniture Exhibition site, Beijing Ronglin Furniture filed a complaint with the Intellectual Property Organizing Committee of the Shenzhen Furniture Exhibition Organizing Committee, all claiming that shenzhen Yaohua IKEA Furniture Co., Ltd. (Berson Furniture) Daguan Series was suspected of appearance infringement. In June 2013, the case of double-leaf furniture against Lai's furniture was pronounced, Jinan Aoke Furniture Co., Ltd. (Rai's furniture) lost the case, becoming the first furniture enterprise in the series of claims to lose the case for plagiarism. At the end of 2014, Beijing Century Top 100 Furniture Co., Ltd. announced that it would take three brands, International Home, Xuanyi (Tianjin) Furniture Co., Ltd. and Tianjin Dongsheng Furniture Manufacturing Co., Ltd., to court.
, chairman of the China Furniture Association, said that intellectual property protection issues have long plagued the industry, the phenomenon of plagiarism of designs often occurs in the industry. Furniture has few technical patents, mostly appearance patents, and the appearance is not difficult to imitate, so well-designed products, often copied. Some consumers said, into the home store, often can see different brands but very similar to very similar furniture, asked the shop assistant, all said they are original. Domestic brands copy foreign, small brands copy big brands, you copy me I copy you, copy to copy, and finally consumers do not know who home is the original.
plagiarism is driven by interests
In today's, whether it is enterprises or designers, should be aware of the law, but why there are frequent plagiarism incidents? Ronglin Home President QiLin told reporters that the furniture industry plagiarized into the wind, the main reason is still out of the "interest" word. Qi always believes that today's plagiarism benefits are very large, the cost of breaking the law is too low. "Originality is not done at the touch of a mouth, companies and designers put a lot of effort into it, and the success rate will not be 100 percent. And plagiarists save the most laborious links like nurturing, and get a lot of unearing benefits directly. Ge Yongming, chairman of Sanhua Furniture, also said that many furniture companies in China are not aware of the consequences of "plagiarism", they habitually enjoy plagiarism and with the smallest costs and costs in exchange for the most lucrative commercial profits, this seemingly shrewd business wisdom, but directly smothered the driving force of innovation in the middle. He Hongyi, general manager of top 100 furniture, said that although the plagiarized products in the appearance and materials to imitate, but plagiarized the original manufacturing process and quality. On the issue of plagiarism, Qi also said, "copy imitation is every country's development must go through the transition period, Japan, the United States have also experienced." Imitation is not terrible, if through imitation to achieve the extension and development of their own innovation, it is not inevitable, but can not imitate plagiarism into the way of survival, this is the most terrible. ”