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It’s Hard to Support Australian Made
RearvizSL-15 Blue Bike the product being copied
Cardwell Gallery items being sold at the Home Grown, Handmade and Upcycled markets in the historical precent of Cardwell November 30. on wish.com or ebay? There exists a belief decided that my favourite about how she estabSARI HYYTINEN When you do please be that free trade at the interthree were; Yungaburlished a successful farmmindful that you may national level is helpful ra, Malanda Market and ing business as the Pinto SATURDAY November be supporting products to western countries and Mission Beach.” Peanut lady. During 30th, Thea Ormonde cothat are identical copies the Australian governIf you are an planning the conversation, Asordinated the very first of products created by ment encourages Australon becoming an entrekey-Doran told CCIN Home Grown, Handmade Australians who cannot ians to be entrepreneurs. preneur, the local market “When I first wanted a and Upcycled market in patent their products in The biggest challenge in may be a good place to job that wasn’t packthe historical precinct of China. the international market start as it is a good place ing bananas, I decided Cardwell. More of these Lee Crane the manfor Australian entrepreto see if people are interon Pinto Peanuts. Six markets are set to happen ager of Rearviz spoke neurs is that it is rare to ested. But as we advance weeks later, I had my first in 2020. to CCIN on Monday obtain a patent for your into an age of technology market stall at Mission In CCIN’s November November 25 about her products in China. modern marketplaces are Beach. Every weekend I 5th edition, we talked to families personal acHave you shopped online. went to a market before I Rebecca Askey-Doran
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count of dealing with the challenges of the modern online marketplaces. The Australian company Rearviz launched their product in 2012. Ray Crane the inventor got an idea, did everything correctly and patented his products. But despite this his company is being robbed of sales daily by the copies being made in China. They also name
their copies Rearviz. Lee Crane informed CCIN that a Chinese company wrote a copy of their patent in Chinese word for word from their Australian patent and are now selling cheap copies of their products back to Australians.
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