[IP] New Zealand: Company selling cellphone radiation shield convicted
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From: Henry Fleischmann <henry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 13, 2004 10:23:35 PM EDT
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Subject: New Zealand: Company selling cellphone radiation shield
convicted
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/businessstorydisplay.cfm?
storyID=3571497&
thesection=business&thesubsection=telecommunications&thesecondsubsection
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Company selling cellphone radiation shield convicted
09.06.2004 -
A company and its director who claimed a device they sold protected
cellphone users from radiation has been found guilty of making false
claims.
Christchurch District Court Judge Graeme Noble fined Waveshield (New
Zealand) Limited and its director Miles Dixon $4000 for falsely claiming
that its device blocked up to 97 per cent of electromagnetic radiation
and
was proven to do so.
The Commerce Commission case had been originally heard in July last
year but
a re-hearing was allowed so the company could mount a defence.
In the end they pleaded guilty part way through the new trial after
Dixon
admitted a letter had been sent to him by the commission in October 2002
raising its concerns.
The commission had found the device did not work as promoted and
Waveshield
had not taken sufficient steps to check out whether it did. It also
failed
to check the standard of testing done on the product before it was put
on
the market.
Director of Fair Trading Deborah Battell said that despite the
Commission
warning Waveshield its activities risked breaching the Fair Trading
Act, it
continued to market the device with the original claims.
Later the commission got an injunction in the High Court preventing
Waveshield from advertising and selling its product.
Judge Noble said the continuing marketing of the product after the
commission had contacted the company was an aggravating feature.
- NZPA
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