You’d think that certain manufacturers would have learned by now.
Every year someone show ups at the EICMA show and every year the Guardia di Finanza (the Italian agency that fights everything from tax evasion, counterfeiting, copyright violations to smuggling) also arrive because they’ve received complaints from other manufacters that certain scooter and motorcycle models are blatant knock offs of their marque.
Last year the law enforcement agency seized under the falsification and copyright laws a Yiben YB 250 ZKT which was a copy of Piaggio’s MP3, this time around Piaggio found six scooter models all like their famed Vespa and had them seized and they included: •The Roman by the TaoTao Group (China) •The WL 101Z by Ningbo Wanli Weiye International Trade Co.
(China) •The Luxury by Bertini S.
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(Italy) •The Reset Ecologic by WRS S.
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(Italy) •The Miami by E-Tropolis Italia S.
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(Italy) •The Milano by E-Tropolis Italia S.
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