Matteo Passoni, Carlo Guido Passoni, and their start-up company Hi Tech International S.r.l. (HTI) of Italy, have counterfeited the patented Neoteric HovertrekT recreational, rescue and commercial hovercraft by stealing Neoteric’s patented designs and illegally splash molding the Hovertrek™ to produce inexpensive tooling. HTI is aggressively marketing these unreliable forgeries under names such as Hoverescue Model 425 and Hoverescue Model 525.

There is widespread concern in the hovercraft industry that HTI is threatening consumer safety by selling hovercraft with no track record, while plagiarizing Neoteric’s logo and web site text to fraudulently claim Neoteric’s 40-year history in hovercraft design and technology. HTI’s rescue hovercraft forgeries have serious problems such as exploding fans, and pose a danger to first responders and to those they are tasked to save.

To read how Hi Tech International perpetrated this theft - in their own words - and to understand the risks of utilizing HTI’s counterfeit hovercraft, we urge you to see the World Hovercraft Organization’s Hovercraft Ripoff Report