On December 18, 2023, the 337 Investigation Committee of the United States (ITC) made a final ruling that none of the floor scrubbers sold in the US market fall under the patent protection of the American brands Bisheng Xia family and Resch family. As a result, all products available in the U.S. market will be available in the U.S. market without any strings attached.
On February 1, 2022, Bisheng, a century-old floor cleaning brand in the United States, filed a lawsuit with the U.S. ** Fair Fairness Commission (ITC) against Ecovacs Robotics Holdings***'s brand Timco floor scrubber for infringing Bisheng's patents, and asked the ITC to issue an injunction to prevent Timco products from being sold in the U.S. market. Ecovacs' Ecovacs robot brand and Timco brand have always been based on integrity and innovation. Although I don't know how long this lawsuit will last, how much energy and financial resources will be invested, I know that I will win in the end!
In fact, the process was also very difficult, and the team of American lawyers hired by Timco also neutrally proposed that the lawsuit would be uncertain in the end, and settlement was also an option. The other party also proposed a settlement through an intermediary party, but the settlement was conditional on a large amount of compensation and the payment of high royalties for the products that Tim could sell in the U.S. market in the future. However, Timco is confident that its products have more advanced technology and do not constitute infringement, so it is okay to propose a settlement, but refuse any additional conditions, and the gap between the two parties is huge, and the settlement has not been realized. With the unremitting efforts of the intellectual property and R&D teams of TIMCO, including Ecovacs, the final judgment of the ITC has finally ushered in after a year and ten months of continuous and arduous battles. This decision not only gives Timco products a passport to the U.S. market. It also proves once again that TIMCO's innovation can withstand the severe test of ITC337 investigation.
The key factor that TIMCO products did not fall into the huge protection scope of the Xia family this time is the constant pressure water activation technology with independent intellectual property rights created by TIMCO floor scrubber. The technology is popular with consumers around the world. At the same time, the two products that Timco sold in the United States in the early days did not have the constant pressure water activation technology fell into the protection scope of the Xia family, but these two technologically backward products were no longer sold in the U.S. market for many years.
According to statistics, at present, the overseas market share of Timco floor scrubbers is far ahead, accounting for 71% of the recent Black Friday sales market of Amazon e-commerce platforms in several developed countries: 71% in the United States, 83% in Canada, 52% in the German market, 82% in the French market, 83% in Italy, 69% in the United Kingdom, and 70% in Japan. All facts have proved that integrity and innovation are the most important treasures of Chinese brands that are popular all over the world.