Comment by refurb
Can a company sue you because you modified their product? Even if that modification caused harm?
Can a company sue you because you modified their product? Even if that modification caused harm?
But can the manufacturer sue? Isn’t the normal way that the customer sues, because their stuff was damaged? Can the manufacturer sue me if I buy their stuff, modify it to be deadly, and sell it again?
(I don’t mean “can the sue me” but “do they have any chance of winning” of course)
> But can the manufacturer sue? do they have any chance of winning?
For Gold Apollo the dilemma here is either to sue the Israel Government (and try to survive the experience as company), or to take the piss and be sued for the families of the people mutilated by "their" product. They are in a difficult position.
It depends on how deep are their pockets and what they think will do less damage to the brand. Also if it has Taiwanese government support or not (unlikely as they probably depend on Israel technology for defense); and if Taiwan companies team with them or not. If the "made in Taiwan" sector want to keep selling radios and pagers to the rest of the planet they need to assure that this can't happen again.
I assume that the consequences for Israel will be indirect, limited and approved by USA, or none.
If you pretend it's legit, I'd say you're breaking trademark law, even if it isn't explosive. The same way you can't put old laptops in Macbook cases and open an online shop.
In this case there would also be a contract with specific terms for the reseller/manufacturer that certainly includes language such as "purposefully produce devices that would damage the brand".
Of course I think the customers have a more serious case to bring on (particularly ones that weren't terrorists). As well as war crime considerations.
Am intermediary can be sued just for damaging products through insufficient, they can certainly be sued for adding defects on purpose. Especially lethal defects.