[liminalsunset]

Do you actually have an example of something like this actually happening? From what I can tell, at least in Canada, absolutely nothing from China I've bought has ever even been opened for inspection, and it's all tagged as a gift worth ten cents and a battery cover or something inane like that.

Anything from half a kilowatt hours of laptop batteries to miscellaneous electronics has passed through, so I don't think there is any inspection going on at all.

Anecdotally based on the number of things that I see without any FCC ID (tbf you can abuse the SDoC process which is self declared [this is why the CE certification is worthless btw] ), I'm just uncertain the FCC actually does any enforcement. And Amazon sellers are also an example of this not being an issue.

[HeyLaughingBoy]

Yep. Fluke, an electrical instrument manufacturer, has a copyright on the look and feel of its handheld digital voltmeters (DVMs). Anyone in the industry will immediately know a Fluke by what it looks like. And they are pretty much the gold standard of handheld DVMs.

Some years ago, a containerload of cheap DVMs from China arrived with a similar appearance, but not made by Fluke. Customs seized the lot and informed them. I forget the details of what happened next, but they were not allowed to be sold in the US since they were in violation of the Fluke copyright.