Thread: Staun Tyre Deflators Legal Action

Methinks something similar may be coming for sellers of fake Maxtrax.

Originally Posted by Ranga

Methinks something similar may be coming for sellers of fake Maxtrax.

but milk crates have been around for donkey's years. I wonder where Maxtrax got their tooling pattern from?

Half the problem is a lot of these companies think they have invented the product and have the intellectual rights. Often they do not. There were tyre deflaters before Staun, just they made a commercially viable alternative.
Same with Maxtrax.
Where does the line get drawn on copyright infingement.
As said sand mats tracks etc in one form or another have been around long before Maxtrax.
I own both of these products as they were the better of the units available.

you no what I have a set of stauns and I have an unbranded set of dtyre deflators that look just like Stauns which I got free with a snatch strap I bought..

you know what the unbranded ones have been better the bloody stauns, the Stauns kept un doing them selves, yes I can put lock tight on them but haven't needed to with the unbraded ones just set them and away they went.

Interesting that it is the concern of subjecting the public to inferior products that has these companies take action.

an update

Attention The Manager,

Subject: August 2012 Information Newsletter

Please note the following :

· Staun Tyre Deflators Legal Action

As an update to our June 2012 Information Newsletter, Staun has now taken legal action to the next level against a number of companies selling & distributing imported copies of the Staun Tyre Deflators. Whilst several resellers have voluntarily removed the copies from their sales range, legal action , including injunctions to the Federal Magistrates Court, are now under way against a number of resellers who continue to distribute copies that infringe registered patent and trademarks, as well as misrepresenting the imported product by associating with the Staun name.
Action also includes restraint against internet selling sites and related websites, as well as recovery of costs and damages incurred from breaches of the registered patent.
The legal action comes at a substantial cost to Staun, but it is important to understand that the proceedings will ultimately ensure the integrity of the Australian designed & manufactured Staun Tyre Deflator brand on behalf of the reseller and end consumer.
It is unfortunate that faulty and ineffective copies of the Staun Tyre Deflators continue to be sold to an unsuspecting public. In recognition of this fact, Staun have taken this important step to ensure that these inferior products are not linked with the original quality product.

It seems there are a few busy litigators out there at the moment... I had a couple of purchases on ebay crunched in the last week due to copyright infringements by the seller. One was LR parts the other was, of all things, stickers (which the brand owner doesn't even offer to the market).

Times are getting tough, instead of increased competition and reduced cost to the public, just sit back and watch the system take care of the profiteers at the top end of the tree again.

P.S. If you have been thinking of buying a few bits and bob's from places like Tigerz11 or any other market price slashing importer then buy quick. No doubt they will be targetted by the big boys soon and forced out of business.

I would suspect you'll see more of these against the bullbar, roof rack etc offerings being distributed out there...

There are many which look exactly like local offerings...


Questioning who owns a design is like Mazda offering and exactly copy of a Range Rover... They are after all, just cars .....