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I've been looking into the origin of the B/O Electronics brand name and discovered that two of the fakes sold under that name had registered UPC barcodes.

Namely: 618476100560 (Baby Brainy) and 618476010067 (Gigabot).

Baby Brainy barcode

Baby Brainy barcode

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Gigabot barcode

Those do not seem to exist in any of the barcode databases I tried looking in, but the first digits of a barcode identify the registering company and can be looked up.

https://www.gs1.org/services/verified-by-gs1/results?gtin=618476100560

Note how the last digits of the barcode (without the check digit at the end) correspond to the "ITEM NO" on the boxes.

The barcode is registered to "Pro-TV Development Inc.", more details on which can be looked up from the registrations of their products within the FCC.

https://fccid.io/W66

The contact person is specified as "NIANZU TANG", which can be another transliteration of "Nien-Chu Tang" seen as the applicant for copyrights over "Furbish" and "Baby Briany" [sic]: https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/detailed-record/19521181.

This company is also known to have produced electronic toys: https://web.archive.org/web/20040103131922/www.toybase.com.tw/tw/t86B49.html.

The domain name "protvinc.com" has expired a few years ago, but the site itself is still up at an alias, protv.com.tw at the time of writing.

On the earlier archived pages, the company is called "Serendipity". https://web.archive.org/web/20010819132337/http://www.protv.com.tw:80/profile.htm https://web.archive.org/web/19981203160530/http://www.toybase.com.tw/tw/t86b49.html

The old site had numerous product categories, including interactive toys, but that part unfortunately has not been archived (look for the "INTERACTIVE TOYS" option in the select menu). https://web.archive.org/web/20010829191021/http://www.protv.com.tw:80/showroom/main.php

Update Jun 4: There is a blog post[1] showing the circuit board of a Furbish, where the label "TF-9901" is visible. On another board shown under Furbish (Furby Fake)/Technical information, that text does not seem to be present, although the component layout matches. This suggests that Teamforce has also been involved.