The Baubax and SCOTTeVEST products seem quite a bit different. I have a Sterling Jacket from SCOTTeVEST and I like it very much. However, it is also true that the main front zipper is low quality and sticky. However, I almost never wear my jackets zipped up, and have learned not to even try with that jacket.

The main appeal of the SCOTTeVEST is the huge number of pockets, including an enormous rear pocket that can even hold my laptop. When I travel, I sometimes purposely wear the SCOTTeVEST in order to take what anounts to another piece of carry on luggage or evade weight restrictions. It can be convenient because it can carry everything I might want during a flight, and let me stow my carry-on in the overhead bin for more legroom. I also wear it sometimes as a regular jacket when I want to carry a book or a camera without carrying a bag. The fabric and handsome and durable.

The Baubax jacket seems to have many fewer pockets, but have a few special gadgets included, like the built-in fingerless gloves and neck pillow. The Baubax jacket seems like less of a bag-replacement, but might be interesting if you care about those special features. I keep a pair of gloves in two exterior pockets of my SCOTTeVEST jacket, and I don't use a neck pillow. I never use the earphones feature.

I don't think that Baubax is a copy or knock-off of SCOTTeVEST, but it is clearly not entirely different either. Innovation happens when different people take different approaches at solving the same problem, and are able to recombine ideas from different products together into something new.