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Sunlight Lantern Sunlight Product Technologies Co, Ltd. Copyright Infringement, IP Violation internet
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To whom it may concern,
Sunlight lantern is violating IP rights owned by MPOWERD, Inc. MPOWERD holds a patent on this design of an inflatable solar lantern and the Sunlight latern is a blatant knock off of the design. They will take legal action if they do not remove their site and operations.
Regards,
John, New York City, New York
2 Updates & Rebuttals
JRem06
New York,New York,
MPOWERD's Arbitration against Sunlight Lantern
#2Author of original report
Fri, March 28, 2014
The Owners of Sunlight Lantern which was formed in 2013 as opposed to MPOWERD Inc. formed in 2012 are Todd Metlen, Eli Probst and David Bunevacz (see various links for other allegations of illicit behavior against Mr. Bunevacz - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bunevacz, http://pagbabago.wordpress.com/category/david-bunevacz/, http://www.beverlyhills6750.com/. Interestingly enough, Mr. Metlen and Mr. Probst own Blue Ox Industrial, a trading company who was hired through Mr. Bunevacz who had a contract and an NDA and Non Compete with MPOWERD to manufacture MPOWERD products. In 2013, their website stated, "This exciting new portable solar LED lantern made by Blue Ox for Mpowerd..."(screen shot attached).
On January 7, 2014, MPOWERD commenced an arbitration against David Bunevacz and Sunlight Ltd. concerning the Sunlight Lantern. According to the allegations of that arbitration demand, pursuant to a contract between MPOWERD and David Bunevacz, Mr. Bunevacz was engaged to manage the production process of the Luci lantern, a solar powered light, for MPOWERD. Mr. Bunevacz also agreed to maintain the confidential information of MPOWERD and not use it for his own purposes. According to the arbitration demand, Mr. Bunevacz used MPOWERD’s confidential and proprietary information in creating – or working with others to create - the Sunlight Lantern.
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Sunlight
Ventura,California,
Sunlight, true and original designer and IP owner
#3REBUTTAL Owner of company
Tue, February 11, 2014
This report is simply false at its core. The owners of Sunlight are the original designers and manufacturers of the product that Mpowerd sells under the name Luci. Sunlight is simply offering its original lantern design directly under it's own brand name. Sunlight maintains patent-pending status on their lantern design in mulitple countries and has already been granted patents on this design in China and the EU.
In fact, it is Mpowerd that is guilty of trying to rip-off Sunlight. Originally, Mpowerd was purchasing units of the Luci lantern from the owners of Sunlight for resale under contract. However, Mpowerd began manufacturing and selling unauthorized copies of Sunlight's lantern design in violation of its agreement. For many months now, Mpowerd has improperly used Sunlight's confidential information for its own economic gain, violated various contractual obligations, and filed fruadulant patent applications in a systematic attempt to steel and profit from something that does not belong to them. Consequently, Sunlight filed a legal claim with the Superior Court of California (case#56-2013-00444550-CU-BT-VTA) against Mpowerd, Inc for misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, and unfiar business practices. This case is ongoing and information is generally available to the public through the Superior Court's website.
Furthermore, Mpowerd has been harrassing Sunlight resellers with threats of legal action. Mpowerd has yet to attempt to act upon these empty threats because Mpowerd has no legal claim. They are simply trying to intimidate and bully the market. Is that who you want to buy a product from?
