Maytag sues Electrolux

[CHIMO]

Maytag Corporation has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against competitor Electrolux Home Product over the design of plastic washing machine baskets.
http://www.sr.se/rs/

[InkAddict]

1. Can't they make the baskets spin backwards

in Mexico - that would be different!

[CHIMO]

2. Rocket Science

Next generation is up and down.
After that it will be in the fourth dimension.
Can you believe that this item is listed as a news item on a national radio station. God, to have these types of problems to solve in life.

[stopbush]

3. Let's see how the media spins this one (ha!) n/t

[whistle]

4. This is most interesting, an American company, Electolux, ships...

...its manufacturing out of the country and fires all of its American workers, then thinks it can steal design ideas from an American competitor, Maytag, because it is now building product in a country that has less stringent patent and intellectual property law enforcement, Mexico. Our neo-conservative government encourages this sort of activity by giving companies substantial tax breaks to ship manufacturing out of the United States knowing full well that if these types of disputes arise, the corruptible foreign courts are likely to rule in favor of the companies that create the jobs in their country, thus driving the U.S. manufacturer like Maytag, to seek a more friendly open competition host country. All of this ends up being good for the U.S. consumer, or what is left of them after the manufacturing jobs disappear. Does this sound like a Catch-22?

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Electrolux is Swedish

though this is the American Frigidaire subsidiary that's involved.

Do you actually have a reference that this has anything to do with manufacture outside of the USA? This story just says Frigidaire has plants in Iowa, the same as Maytag: http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2004/07/27/business/local/8d499d5ac5e41a2b86256ede004b16c4.txt

[nolabels]

6. Whole gawd dang world is turning into plastic fantastic

This is an invention, making products out of plastic? What next wanta-be-intellectual criminal monkeys



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