Originally Posted by
brakemeister
Dahon GLobal was in charge of all Taiwanes built bikes in the past, Dahon GLobal was in charge of worldwide sales of all Dahon bikes( except USA).
They did all the marketing, the shows etc etc etc ... Dahon China was merely building bikes........
All marketing driven changes were coming from Taiwan ...( color, model spec, accessories, etc etc )
Some but not all technical developments came from Taiwan. Some of the major ones have patents ( either by Josh or Dahon Global, which he always owned ) These patents are publich knowledge and are easily found. The Vector and Ios line of bikes for example are completely developed by Dahon Global and have patents on it. ( Not in every country as far as I know, but nether the less )
Dahon China also has patents on hinges and on other things, at the beginning all tech bits were developed by Dr David Hon, later more and more came from Josh and his Team.
Dahon shows the Curl, but doesn't market it. They enter it into a "new products" competition, but still don't market it. Josh Hon announces on the Dahon web board that the Curl was never intended to be a production bike and was just "a design exercise". Then the Curl shows up in China as a production bike.
Josh Hon controlled the product line and marketing of the bikes, and the Curl patent was in Dr. David Hon's name. At last I get it.