aquatuning trademark grab ?

[century child]

Wow is all I can say. They've been up to some shady things lately and this is just the icing on the cake. Up until recently they have been a stand-up place to do business with and I've dropped a lot of money there. I haven't bought anything from them though since they started copying pretty much all the popular fittings and selling them as their own. I'm almost willing to bet that they sent the cease and desist to a-c-shop as that is probably the second best-stocked watercooling shop in Germany followed by Caseking as they recently expanded their selection quite a bit.

@Helfarch, this is an EU company and will therefore more likely be protected by the EU courts than reprimanded.

[Navanod]

Hmmm...wouldn't Alphacool piss off all their suppliers by killing off their other reseller clients in Europe? I'm sure the suppliers wouldn't want to see a monopoly either since that means they are stuck with Alphacool in Europe, no matter how poor a business partner Alphacool turns out to be or how late the payments are coughed up.

Whats next? KFC sueing the state of Kentucky and anyone that sells fried food or chicken products?

[Humminn55]

WTF? http://oami.europa.eu/CTMOnline/Requ...en_SearchBasic

I typed in "Bitspower".

Go back and type in "Aquatuning"....comes up with no trademarks found. Interesting....quite possibly they've forgotten to trademark their own name?

That'd be rich if true.....


Just too bad I don't have a spare $3K hanging around, unused, or I'd trademark that "wordmark" in a heartbeat. Would be fun at least!

[bundymania]

"Translated: "At the head of AlphaCool is 3 persons: Andreas Rudnicki, Marcus Böttcher and Taner Demirci.""


this is wrong - alphacool has nothing to do with aquatuning !! Rudnicki is not involved with Alphacool since many years.....just to make this point clear

[masska]

Aquatuning = GREED
thats all I can say. They've lost me as a customer.

[requ13m]

As much as you wish people like this to suffer the consequences of stupid actions they more than likely won't as they have a huge customer base in Germany and Eastern Europe where people might not take as much offence towards a move like this.

Also before jumping the gun on them, they are not ceasing to offer other company products nor call them their own, however its whether or not they do that is when it becomes a serious issue.

[masska]

fair comment, however what other reason would a major player like Aquatuning have to register all these names/trademarks ?

[requ13m]

Money mainly, if you think about it they've registered a few of the big names in watercooling who have the greatest potential to grow so when they look to expand their operations into europe they'll have to register the company and they won't be able to do so. Therefore the only option is to enter an agreement to purchase the registered name from them

[century child]

The strategy appears to be to block other retailers from selling these products. There's a discussion that has started over at Luxx where someone mentioned this is not the first time this has been done so it looks like something they may actually be able to get away with. If so, all I can say is absolutlely pathetic.

[bundymania]

check this out

[requ13m]

The strategy appears to be to block other retailers from selling these products. There's a discussion that has started over at Luxx where someone mentioned this is not the first time this has been done so it looks like something they may actually be able to get away with. If so, all I can say is absolutlely pathetic.

I don't think it can technically stop them selling the products, I think it can stop them from advertising the products but maybe international copyright law will over rule them all. Regardless it was an expensive and idiotic move by a bunch of people who a lot of people liked to purchase from. Hopefully they do get prosecuted under anti competition law for this move

[Logos]

check this out

I deleted my previous posts here, thinking that after all it might not be the best idea to state anything without knowing what's going on...and now that I see that how come there are no investigation from registering organizations, no collaboration between the EU and the US on this level ? I even see thermochill is part of it, and it's British, so the EU...what's that ?
You got a link to where you took that screen shot ?
edit: I found the site...

[[XC] riptide]

check this out

That is fcked up, my friend.

[alejo]

I see Swiftech on that list. It would be interesting what Gabe will say. Though I supposed he probably wouldn't be able to say much in a public forum as this looks like it would be a much more complicated than some enthusiast making custom GTZ tops or something.

[century child]

check this out

I have been considerin posting in their forum to request they comment on the situation. They would likely just delete the post though. What do you think bundymania?

[Logos]

I have been considerin posting in their forum to request they comment on the situation. They would likely just delete the post though. What do you think bundymania?

I've just checked their forums..no chat section there (edit: there is one)...I browsed it a while ago to check why they refused to sell TFC, and there was a thread, with nothing that could be considered as an answer, so I doubt they would comment the issue we're discussing here.

edit: there is a thread in fact:
http://www.aquatuning-forum.com/view...hp?f=12&t=4113
no answer so far...

(chat section there = Plauderecke)

[dreamaxx]

[century child]

Ok, I overlooked that. Thanks for bringing that to my attention Logos. I also found that someone posted about it here in another section of their forums: http://www.aquatuning-forum.com/view...php?f=5&t=3886

It will be interesting to see what comes of these posts. More than likely they will probably just be deleted.

[Logos]

you can post there without registering, I just did...in the link I gave above...
I guess the biggest issue there is there's no international patent regulation really...and the other issue is they will never accept to discuss anything publicly.

[Navanod]

OMG they got Yate Loon and even Hailea!?!? Hailea is like an AQUARIUM pump maker...just so happens that some of their pumps can be ran outside water.

And WTH, "Dye Bomb"?!?! That's just a nickname given by Primochill for the colored dyes. If it costed $3K to do this, shouldn't they hit PC ICE/PC Pure first?

[DemonEyez]

OMG, i've been customer from Aquatuning for many years, but after reading this topic and that crap they try to pull with the Feser products, i'll never order anything from them ever agian.
Back here in the Netherlands we also have HighFlow , luckily, which has a rather large range of products just like Aquatuning.

Aquatuning, may lose all your customers and burn in Hell for this , you bunch of greedy bastards!

[DarthBeavis]

just emailed that list to Danger Den. Thanks for the heads up

[masska]

I've been buying from them for quite a while too, but no more.
I've always liked HighFlow and Freddy's service is A+, so I'll just be spending more money at HighFlow from now on.

OMG, i've been customer from Aquatuning for many years, but after reading this topic and that crap they try to pull with the Feser products, i'll never order anything from them ever agian.
Back here in the Netherlands we also have HighFlow , luckily, which has a rather large range of products just like Aquatuning.

Aquatuning, may lose all your customers and burn in Hell for this , you bunch of greedy bastards!

[requ13m]

I've been a big fan of specialtech.co.uk and they've never let me down and have even gone out of there way to source stuff they didn't even stock. This whole thing is a sham the more I read the more annoyed i get at the arrogance to do something like this. I'll have to run some of the legality of this by my solicitor mate

[DarthBeavis]

I am surprised they can pull this off if they are in the EU. While I think Europeans are too quick to give up their sovereignty (i.e. the EU) I do think some areas like patents and cooperative business law are an area in which that type of organizational structure would be beneficial.