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Embedded Firmware & IP Protection from Chinese clones
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Kilrah:
No but you're going to ask for more $ and thus set a higher barrier to entry than if the product is easy to clone, so it's not exactly what people will jump for as a first step...
Mechatrommer:

--- Quote from: blueskull on January 23, 2019, 05:35:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: Bud on January 23, 2019, 05:28:07 pm ---@OP Some protection is better than no protection. Do what you find reasonable after assessing risk as people in this thread advised. If everybody would say what is the point if anything can be cloned we would not have any protection anywhere.

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If it's some commodity simple thing without any very new technology, I can probably clone it without getting the physical product on hand.
I can work out how something works just from its marketing material, and a PCB photo will only help. And I'm certainly not the only one who is gifted this capability.

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i dont call it cloning. its more like market/product/engineering research. big brand competing companies also did this kind of thing. similarly if you just take a product you want to "clone", remove the original chip, and put your own chip with your own fw, i still dont call that cloning, more proper termed as immitation. clone means we have the original FW and program empty chip without any programming skill effort. 100% similar copy both HW and FW side, cant be distinguished from original. immitation is only similar on the outside, when looking the inside, we know its not original, imho.
SiliconWizard:
Well, it's a form of cloning, and many chinese companies actually do this AFAIK. Yes it's a complete development. It requires effort. But they are copying the concept and possibly the image of the product, which are valuable if the product has already been successful on the market. It actually removes one of the biggest uncertainties when it comes to releasing a new product: will it sell? So there is incentive to do it even if it requires significant R&D work.

Obviously, unless they are provably infringing on a trademark or a patent that covers your product (and you have means of defending it), there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.
Geoff_S:
Bye bye spammer....
Jeroen3:
What if they just clone the looks, name, logo and imitate some function, sell if for way less, and then you have angry customers?
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