May 6th, 2021
Plagiarism is easy.
Trademark squatting has long been a big problem for foreign companies trying to enter the Chinese market where dishonest Chinese individuals or companies register valuable and well-recognized brand names and their trademarks in advance in China, thereby limiting foreign entry. Long legal wars aside, this usually ends up with the original trademark owners having to pay a large sum of fees to the other party to legally use what was rightfully theirs.
In recent years, these same dishonest Chinese companies have taken things abroad to other countries.
Over the past few weeks we have sadly learnt that the “MPP Solar” trademark in the USA has been registered and stolen by Must Power, an inverter trading company based in Shenzhen, China who has been known for various unethical and illegal practices including IPR plagiarism and selling counterfeit MPP Solar inverters all over the world. To confuse the market, they have even further re-branded inverters in several different names.
While it is surely not the first time a mainland Chinese company has committed such illicit and unethical act by stealing other companies’ brands and logos by registering trademarks in advance to control and limit the legitimacy of the original company, we feel that most victims do not speak out. We have confirmed knowledge there are at least three inverter / UPS companies whose trademarks have also been stolen by Must Power through advance registration in several countries.
Despite legal efforts are already underway to oppose this, we realize it may be a long legal battle.
We would like to take this opportunity to urge all our distribution partners to be highly alert of this situation as it may yet happen again in other countries and more importantly, we’re asking for support from our customers and friends to recognize the true malicious nature of Must Power company.
Thank you for your attention.
