All they need to do is... - Allow people to buy genuine replacement parts at the same or similar pricing to what the OEM pays - Publish information on what pa

All they need to do is... - Allow people to buy genuine replacement parts at the same or similar pricing to what the OEM pays - Publish information on what parts go where on the device and how to install them - Don't make the device lock itself if it detects the user has replaced a device None of this in and of itself implicates John Deere's ability to ship a competitive product or prevent cloning. My understanding is that other manufacturers would already have the ability and know-how to take their competitors' products apart and figure out how they work. Not being able to buy replacement parts or not having circuit board schematics doesn't really help stop that, because they can just buy the whole package and do their own reverse-engineering work from there. If you have competitors that can't do that, then they probably couldn't build a clone even if these companies were extremely repair-friendly.