Thread: Legal question about design copyright

I know a guy who is a very clever man with a sheet metal and tubular goods factory. He spent $200,000 some years ago attempting to stop a company in an Asian country blatently using one of his patents and selling the items around the Pacific Rim. He says it was a total waste of time and money, and achieved nothing. He makes the point that he was the only white man in the court.

He has since developed a couple of very interesting processes and deliberately has not patented them, stayed stumm, and uses them himself. He reckons as soon as you patent things like this then every, Lee, Nakamura, and Patel will be copying them and thumbing their noses at you.

I think he might have something there Brian.

He would have been better throwing his $200,000 in the right pockets, rather than through the courts.

No doubt thats how his opposition succeeded.