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SIGLITE 360 degree Tempered Glass Road Stud 19mm

Solar Siglite Tempered Glass Road Stud

All Direction Glass Kerb Stud

2009.10.8














Thank to the Abuse and False Accusation from 3W Asia Limited in Shanghai (China)
Seih-Ying Co., Ltd.
1. Over recent period, a company called “3W Asia Limited” has continuously abused and vilified Seih-Ying’s product on its website. We at Seih-Ying are surprised about existence of such company in China that has five thousand years of culture; however, the content in such website is not even worth a laugh. Out of our expectation though, some customers that never dealt with us actually linked to our website out of curiosity, after receiving the abusive information from this trading company (i.e. 3W Asia Limited) in Shanghai. After understanding the facts and further testing on our sample of “360°temperred glass road marking reflector”, these customers are convinced that quality of Seih-Ying’s products is far better than the imitation from China. They have started mass purchased after minor installation and test, and they are very satisfied with out products. To address these massive purchase orders that increased suddenly, we had to produce round the clock for fulfilling needs from these new customers. Therefore, we still need to thank the abuse and “advertisement” from 3W Asia Limited in Shanghai. Nevertheless, the old customers that have traded with us for many years do not pay attention to these abuses at all, but they only understand the true value of this company from Shanghai.

2. Mr. Chen, the owner of Seih-Ying is now the director of China Road Federation (CRF). Since the CRF has been established for 42 years, it is an important window of cross-strait contact for relevant unit of road and transportation. Mr. Chen has entertained many high-level leaders that are still in position for official and industrial fields in Chinese transportation. They have inspected Seih-Ying’s product – “360°temperred glass road marking reflector (glass road stud)” on highways and important public roads in Taiwan, and such marking reflectors with 5-10 years of lifetime massively used in Taiwan have given them strong and deep impression. In addition to raise a lawsuit to the Court in China for abuse from this trading company (i.e. 3W Asia Limited), Seih-Ying would also like to ask relevant official leaders in China to understand and keep a eye on the truth and this company.

3. We have received reply from relevant unit of certification in EU, which points out that VOV Certification Company in UK is not an unit approved by EU. Therefore, the CE, EN1463-1 and EN1463-2 that approved this trading company in Shanghai provide no public credit at all. If the customers use these illegal products and they cause problems, these customers will have to bear the legal and compensational liabilities in European countries at their own cost.

4. Once again, we would like to invite 3W Asia Limited to be our agent, because the glass road studs produced by Tai-An-Ying X Company under your agency are all common glasses and not tempered. If these products are used on public roads, there will be problem of legal charge for causing public hazard. For an enterprise to make monetary profit, such enterprise shall carry the social obligation on its shoulders at the same time.

glass road marker
In connection with the 2nd generation of glass bulged road markers represented by 3W Asia Ltd. (Shanghai), which are declared by the company as its invention with patent under application, the product is actually a plagiarization of Seih-Ying’s old patents with relevant no. shown below:
USA patent no. 5365372 (1994.11.15)
British patent no. 9317255.9 (1994.9.28)
Japanese patent no. Shi-kai-ping 6-85413 (1994.12.6)

The 2nd generation of glass bulged road markers (stainless body) produced by 3W has a bulge height of 30 mm above ground surface and this does not comply with regulation of Section 5.1 “Requirements on dimensions” under JT/T390-1999 (“The height of bulge road marker shall be less than 25 mm” and “The height of general road marker under international code shall be less than 19 mm on highways and 25 mm on normal roads”). The relevant requirements of JT/T390-1999 are quoted as follows:
5.1 Requirements on dimensions
5.1.1 The bulged road markers are normally provided in rectangular, circular or elliptic shapes. All corners of the base that might experience vehicle running shall be round and the height of edge shall be less than 4mm.
5.1.2 For bulged road markers used for lane separators, the length (diameter) l1 of the side facing travelling direction shall be greater than 1mm, less than 150mm and the width of lane separator; the length (diameter) l2 of the side parallel with travelling direction shall be less than 150mm and l1. The height of bulged road markers shall be less than 25mm.
5.1.3 For bulged road markers used for lane edges, the length (diameter) l1 of the side facing travelling direction shall be greater than 100mm, less than 200mm and the width of lane edge; the length (diameter) l2 of the side parallel with travelling direction shall be less than 200mm and l1. The height of bulged road markers shall be less than 25mm.
5.1.4 For bulged road markers used for other marking lines, the width (diameter) shall be less than the width of marking line; the length (diameter) shall be less than the width and the height of bulged road markers shall be less than 25mm.

It is recommend to modify the height to be less than 25 mm, so the product can be used on highways.

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2008.6.11
In connection with patents related to tempered glass road marking reflectors and solar tempered glass road marking reflectors, the Seih-Ying Co., Ltd. from Taiwan has obtained several patents from many countries (including China). The colored glass road marking reflectors and dual-color glass road marking reflectors provided by Holophane from France are produced by painting the bottom of clear glasses, which early patents obtained by Seih-Ying (Chinese patent no. ZL93207894X, USA patent no. 5397617 and Japanese patent no. 2555905). Holophane did not make any product when Seih-Ying obtained above patents. Therefore, it is obvious that Holophane plagiarized Seih-Ying’s products and interference from irrelevant parties is not required. Seih-Ying will start to assign attorneys for thorough investigation on list of companies that plagiarize Seih-Ying’s various patents.

All patent rights under 3W Asia Ltd. (Shanghai) are invalid
We have received the “Decision for application of declaring Patent no. 11150 invalid” (issued on 2008.03.18) by the Patent Re-examination Board of the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of the P.R. China. In connection with the patent (no. 200430024651.1) of appearance design applied by 3W Asia Ltd. (Shanghai) under the name of “Glass road marking reflector” in 2004, since it is obviously a plagiary of our new patent, the announcement of “all patent rights under 3W Asia Ltd. (Shanghai) are invalid” was drawn. All our relevant tempered glass road marking reflectors and solar tempered glass road marking reflectors are applied with patents in China and other countries. Please respect the intellectual property right to avoid unnecessary legal violation of infringement.

2009.5.6 Statement
Concerning a France company that declares Seih-Ying has stopped producing Siglite tempered glass road reflector. Seih-Ying makes a statement as follows:

1. The France company declares publicly that Seih-Ying has out of production, and all the products don’t apply to the standards of EU. However, all of the above doesn’t agree with the real situation.

2. The colored products of the France company were processed by spraying paints on the bottom. For the coloring technology, in fact, was copied from the outdated patent of Seih-Ying. Nevertheless, the bottom of color starts fading away after installing on the road for 6 months.

3. At present, the France company had moved their production line of glass road markers to China but they still declared that their products were made in France. Their relative certificates of CE and EN are applied for their France production line and ought to invalid since the movement.

4. Presently, Seih-Ying is developing the overseas market actively, in addition, the relative certificates and reports of CE and ISO were provided by the famous international certification groups. For this reason, Seih-Ying is still the leading company of glass road markers.

2007.11.28 
Congratulations to Mr. Chen, Seih-Ying’s owner is re-elected as the 22nd Director for China Road Federation. In the next two year, he will continue to contribute his strength to relevant units in Taiwan and overseas.