08-11-2010, 10:30 PM
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Craftsman
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 132
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Originally Posted by Carl@Semroc
The complaint is broad enough to cover any products they have depicted in the photos in their catalogs. This would likely include their nose cone shapes, body tube design, rings, chutes, launch lugs, and most of the other 2200 parts we have online. Since most of our revenue comes from parts sales, that would kill us as a company. If they think they can copyright a Little Joe II, then they certainly can "copyright" a BNC-60L design.
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Carl, first let me say this sux, and we are behind you and yours 100%.
If NAPA can produce a distributor cap as a replacemnet part for a chevy, and GM can't prevent it, then how can Estes prevent Semroc from producing replacement parts for an Astron Alpha?
I suppose the point may be moot, if it comes down to the big guy financialy squeezing the little guy even though he is wrong.
further, I believe estes, at least through the prior owners, has already given up some of it's rights by not previously "protecting" their intellectual property.
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