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- Jan 22, 2004
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- An hour north of San Francisco
- Tractor
- Yanmar YM240 Yanmar YM186D
Vina of Texas was named as a defendant in one of the summaries I found from Aaron's Google link. I wouldn't be surprised if Vina wholesales one third or more of the VN "New Rebuilt only 18 hours 2009 model" type of imports.I expect the VN dealers to get slammed next. I ... mean the actual VN dealers
The ability of a trademark holder to absolutely control use of that trademark is established in US law. Most firms don't go overboard on this, but it seems Yanmar has decided to wipe clean the public image of their brand, ie to prohibit the 'rebuilt' vendors from using their name. There is some justification in this. The Vietnam rebuild factories have no access at all to genuine Yanmar parts so all of their 'new rebuilt' tractors are assembled out of God-knows-what. Or not rebuilt at all.Does this mean all the Used Car dealers can look forward to being sued too? Salvation Army? Vietnam Veterans of America?
Anyone who redistributes a used product? Man this is crazy.
It will be interesting to see if the UTDA dealers are included in these suits. (They pledge to modify their Yanmar gray imports up to US safety standards before sale.) Also the vendors of replica replacement parts for Yanmars. Does anybody here know about that?