Originally Posted by
Lalato
I don't believe these are licensed. They may not be improvements over the existing Brompton design, but that doesn't mean they aren't legitimately produced.. They're just not at all affiliated with Brompton in the UK.
It would be cool to see if they start improving the design (apart from materials usage e.g Titanium and Aluminum). For now, though, it's just clones.
Well it sounds like it
could be considered theft of IP if it’s simply a non-auth copy to which the original designers receive no benefit (Brompton).
At the very least, its plausible to consider that an unitiated buyer could purchase a copy/knock-off/clone whatever one chooses to call it, THINKING theyre getting the genuine article. This is often the goal in design plagarism...Im just saying.
Not everyone is attracted to that business model, me being one. To each their own however...