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It's tough. I was at a place where another company ripped off our stuff, including our typos, and our lawyer could really only get them to FOAD after we got th

It's tough. I was at a place where another company ripped off our stuff, including our typos, and our lawyer could really only get them to FOAD after we got the patents issued. And at that point they merely exited the market -- no damages. I should note that we didn't pour 100% of available resources into suing those assholes as a business decision, because we were busy developing our own software.

rayiner 13y ago
> It's tough. I was at a place where another company ripped off our stuff, including our typos We had a customer who complained, off-hand, that a Chinese company had ripped off their (carrier-grade) router design down to the English silk screening on the PCB's.
- hkmurakami 13y ago
  Wow. I had heard that many Chinese factories will use retired molds for casting processes and the like to create copies of things like golf clubs, but this brings the whole process to an entirely new level.
  - arcadius 13y ago
    The retired mold bit happens quite a lot with carbon fiber bicycle frames. A couple companies have gotten quite upset with Chinese manufacturers in the past.
- smacktoward 13y ago
  Reminds me of the "Khyber pass copies" of ancient British firearms that still float around Afghanistan/Pakistan: http://www.martinihenry.com/khyberpage.html http://www.martinihenry.com/khyberpage.html > The makers even tried to copy the stampings and markings from their original source Martini. Backwards letters and misspellings of the markings are common. The majority of Khyber Pass Martinis I've seen have typos that are very similar. One of the most common is to have the "N" in "Enfield" backwards...likely because one "Master Copy" of an original Martini was made, then passed around for others to makes copies from. The erroneous marking was then faithfully copied from one weapon to the next.

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It's tough. I was at a place where another company ripped off our stuff, including our typos, and our lawyer could really only get them to FOAD after we got th

by danielweber 13y ago

rayiner 13y ago
> It's tough. I was at a place where another company ripped off our stuff, including our typos We had a customer who complained, off-hand, that a Chinese company had ripped off their (carrier-grade) router design down to the English silk screening on the PCB's.
- hkmurakami 13y ago
  Wow. I had heard that many Chinese factories will use retired molds for casting processes and the like to create copies of things like golf clubs, but this brings the whole process to an entirely new level.
  - arcadius 13y ago
    The retired mold bit happens quite a lot with carbon fiber bicycle frames. A couple companies have gotten quite upset with Chinese manufacturers in the past.
- smacktoward 13y ago
  Reminds me of the "Khyber pass copies" of ancient British firearms that still float around Afghanistan/Pakistan: http://www.martinihenry.com/khyberpage.html http://www.martinihenry.com/khyberpage.html > The makers even tried to copy the stampings and markings from their original source Martini. Backwards letters and misspellings of the markings are common. The majority of Khyber Pass Martinis I've seen have typos that are very similar. One of the most common is to have the "N" in "Enfield" backwards...likely because one "Master Copy" of an original Martini was made, then passed around for others to makes copies from. The erroneous marking was then faithfully copied from one weapon to the next.