Porter International dispute
Approximately in 1989, the international company (Porter International Company Limited) located in Taiwan Taichung introduced PORTER into Taiwan. At that time, "Porter international" and "Yoshida Porter" cooperation was importing the Japanese raw material, the material quality, the design, independently made by the Taiwan locality, They were allowed voluntarily to change some designs, therefore equally was "PORTER.TOKYO.JAPAN".
However the label indicate "MADE IN TAIWAN", used to distinguish the Japanese-made PORTER, at that time Taiwan PORTER indeed had the close cooperation relations with Japan. After 2000, because in the Japanese drama "love generation", "the beautiful life" plays an important role lead's KIMURA TAKUYA used "Porter Tanker" which led the Porter series sale.
As "Yoshida PORTER" only has trademark in Japan and other local registration, in 2001 the Taiwan business agent "Porter International", saw the business opportunity, trademark the whole world "the Porter trademark" and obtains the international trademark rights, the design manufacture and the operating right, and started to take the sale by "Porter International" However the Japanese 原創 parent company "Yoshida Porter" certainly did not acknowledge "PORTER INTERNATIONAL" this brand, causing the market to appear the legitimate Japanese sign "PORTER.TOKYO.JAPAN" and the Taiwan sign "PORTER INTERNATIONAL".
Because the Japanese company has established a resounding Porter=Yoshida brandname, the Taiwan business agent who registered "the Porter trademark" received much criticism, and also caused the common consumer to be unable to distinguish the difference.
The above is translated directly from Chinese text, hence the broken English.