"No surprise there. Same reason why platforms like Etsy, Ebay and even recently launched Amazon Handmade are flooded with copycat and/or fake merchandise. Fighting against Alibaba or a Chinese seller in China is verging on the futile - time consuming, costly, enervating. I would believe the best form of "protection" and receiving due credit for a design is to launch the genuine device at quality fairs, blogs, magazines and/or have it produced and sold through legitimate U.S. and European dealers or crowd-funding schemes."