Fujitsu sue Toshiba over lookalike Japanese cellphone
by admin on Mar.17, 2008, under Fujitsu, Toshiba
If you think the two cellphones in the picture below look similar, imagine how Fujitsu feel: they developed the handset on the left, the Foma Rakuraku Phone III, for NTT DoCoMo, and then Toshiba introduced the handset on the right, the Kandan Keitai 821T, for Softbank. Now Fujitsu and their carrier chum are suing Toshiba, seeking a temporary injunction on sales of the 821T with the eventual goal of having it permanently withdrawn from sale.
Softbank have responded by denying the similarity, and suggesting that, as the 821T is intended for the youth market (rather than elderly users, as the Rakuraku is), it’s sufficiently different to make Fujitsu a big cry-baby. Toshiba has so far remained silent.
