Here's Daedong/Kioti's press release. Very similar, but slightly different than the one posted above, which is Kubota's press release:
<font color="blue"> Kubota Corporation and Kubota Tractor Corporation, on the one hand, and Daedong Industrial Co., Ltd. and Daedong-USA, Inc., on the other hand, have settled the lawsuit that was pending between them in Federal District Court in Fresno, California.
The lawsuit alleged, among other things, that certain aspects of the appearance of Daedong’s Kioti tractors infringed trade dress and other rights that Kubota asserted exist in Kubota’s tractors. Daedong vigorously disputed these allegations.
Daedong wishes to once again inform consumers that there is no relationship between Kubota and Daedong or their respective products. Kubota and Daedong are completely separate companies, and there is no manufacturing or engineering relationship of any kind between Kubota and Daedong. Accordingly, neither company’s dealers are obligated to honor warranties on the other company’s products, and neither company authorizes its parts to be used on the other company’s tractors.
Other terms of the settlement are confidential.
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