I’m new here, but actually, I know a little bit about this seizure that involves the AVD brand. I know this because we are the company that created the supply chain and manufacturing SOP’s for AVD in Shenzhen. We are also the brand owner of AVD and licensed distribution rights to Next Level Ventures, LLC (DBA: AVD).
The seizure was due to CCELL’s concern about AVD continuing to take market share. BOTH Smoore and Vaplax/Naixing (Our contracted factories - No, AVD does NOT own their factory) were awarded design patents for the products in dispute. China’s patent filing strategy is quite archaic and patents can be awarded in as little as 30 days. However, that also means that patents can easily be revoked. Smoore will likely invalidate the patents by our contracted factories and likely to do the same to Smoore because there is public proof that both designs were introduced and sold to the public prior to patent filing for both parties. Essentially, making the designs in dispute, open to the public.
Most likely, this was an effort by Smoore (CCELL) to attempt to slow down AVD’s logistics with a stalling strategy that holds up shipments for 30 days prior to leaving Hong Kong customs but also helps create newsworthy material to use as a defensive narrative against AVD’s surging growth.
It’s business as usual at our contracted factories and we are in the process of opening up factory number three in Q4 of this year.