Seven Towns vs. Dayan - Color Scheme Copyright Infringment

[The Bloody Talon]

What if Seventowns bought out DaYan and made them an official part of their company? Sort of a "Speedcube" division?

ehem?

do they really need to buy dayan's company?
they can simply copy dayan's design because they are not patented. (are they patented? I'm not sure)
but if they copy dayan's design, they will have bad impression from the public.
and I'm contradicting myself.

 

[ThomasJE]

...they can simply copy dayan's design because they are not patented. (are they patented? I'm not sure)
but if they copy dayan's design, they will have bad impression from the public.
and I'm contradicting myself.

They are patented in China at least. The ZhanChi has patent numbers *looks at box* 200920151642.6 and 201020545043.5. Just an example.

 

[Pixel 6]

Placed an order today for a fairly large amount of cubes.

Testing a strategy I came up with, and talked to my wholesaler about to avoid problems with customs, even if they open the box, and know about the "Rubik's trademark / counterfeit issue".

They should be allowed to pass through as they are not in violation of either issue.

Sucks to even need to worry about these things though.

Wish me luck!

- Pixel -

 

[Schmidt]

You are hereby wished luck.

The thing you came up with; is it really clever or very obvious??

 

[TpmmasoBTDZ]

I swear 10% of people like purple. I am glad I like it.

XD, same I'm actually glad about this new color scheme. Ive always bought purple or pink instead of my orange or red on my 3x3's. Also I think Rubiks is making no money at all so they attack big companies like dayan and dayan just changed scheme and now seven towns is like, F***.

 

[Iggy]

I don't really care. As said before, we can easily replace the stickers. But it would be easier if the stickers were of higher quality and with orange instead of purple.

 

[Mudkip]

Aww, but Orange is my cross color..
I could get used to purple though.

 

[TimMc]

I think it's slightly ridiculous. People have become so accustomed to that color scheme solving wise that switching it to purple can throw off peoples' times slightly. The only thing that this will do is increase the sales of extra/orange stickers from places like CubeSmith

I usually replace the stickers on a new cube with a half-bright set of Cubesmith or Z stickers.

If you haven't heard of Z stickers then please read below to save yourself some hassle when replacing purple stickers:

Some similarities between Cubesmith and Z stickers:

• They both use Oracle
• They both offer standard, half-bright, full-bright sets etc.
• They're both around the US$1-2 mark for a 3x3 set.

Some differences with Z stickers:

• They're cut for specific cubes (e.g. ss4, w2, s2, dayan zhanchi, dayan lingyun etc)
• They're spaced out appropriately so that you can quickly apply the stickers to one face at a time

Tim.

 

[advincubing]

Is there any chance that, instead of switching to purple, they merely started reversing the red and orange faces vis-a-vis the others? I ask because I just ordered two new Zhanchis (both black) from amazon at the same time. One arrived with the standard scheme. The other arrived with orange and red reversed. I've attached a picture comparing the two. Either it's a QC problem or was done on purpose (perhaps due to the suit)? Anyone else receive mis-stickered ones?

Doesn't much matter since I'm re-stickering tonight.....

 

[Hippolyte!!!]

You don't have to re-stickers it, just disassemble the red and orange pieces (not just the cube), and then reassemble with the scheme you want.

 

[advincubing]

You don't have to re-stickers it, just disassemble the red and orange pieces (not just the cube), and then reassemble with the scheme you want.

I don't think that's exactly right. Unless I'm just exhausted and not thinking about this correctly, take the yellow/orange/green corner piece as an example. In a conventionally-stickered cube, if you have yellow up, it would have green front and orange right (or orange front and green left); with yellow up, green is clockwise from orange. The corner in the mis-stickered one has yellow up, orange front, green right -- with green counter-clockwise from orange. So, it's not just a matter of re-assembly....

Right?

But I always resticker with bright cubesmith stickers, anyway.

 

[Daniel Wu]

Well, you could just take the corner apart and reassemble each individual corner so that the color scheme is correct.

 

[advincubing]

Well, you could just take the corner apart and reassemble each individual corner so that the color scheme is correct.

That's true! Hadn't thought about disassembling each corner....

Anyway, more than anything, just interesting to get a funky (but fixable) copy.

 

[ducttapecuber]

is this still a problem? Or has it been resolved?

 

[mdolszak]

is this still a problem? Or has it been resolved?

I've been wondering that, too. It seems like Dayan kept with the regular orange stickers.

 

[sa11297]

I've been wondering that, too. It seems like Dayan kept with the regular orange stickers.

most of the cubes I have ordered had orange stickers, but one had purple, so I am not sure what is up.

 

[Cheese11]

most of the cubes I have ordered had orange stickers, but one had purple, so I am not sure what is up.

Almost every new cube you get from Dayan will have a purple side instead of orange.

IT'S MY 1000th POST!

 

[Endgame]

Now if this colour scheme would be pushed by every cube manufacturer I'd actually be glad to use the standard stickers.

 

[mdolszak]

Almost every new cube you get from Dayan will have a purple side instead of orange.

IT'S MY 1000th POST!

Haha congrats on 1000!

On topic, I bought a Guhong v2 from Lightake at the beginning of July, and it came with the standard (orange) stickers.

 

[Human hybrid87]

Haha congrats on 1000!

On topic, I bought a Guhong v2 from Lightake at the beginning of July, and it came with the standard (orange) stickers.

I bought a guhong v2 from the forum shop and it had purple stickers

Oh well just waiting on my cube smith half brights now