What they did was very wrong, as you stated. But the making it something of their own is not how it has always gone in this game...
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Mark Richards posted here a few weeks ago to clear up info on sponsoring a provisional at the Pittsburgher.
I agree with President Clinton (shockingly lol) is there a copy right? Who's to say I can't buy a car from xxx chassis maker whether it's new or previously raced (maybe a house car) and build my own exact copy using measurements and dimensions. You can build 20 cars altogether in a row with the same parts and materials and they all won't drive the same.
What exactly is proprietary in welding tubing together??? Can you even get a patent???
I guess the only way to know if a car is true to it's original chassis maker is the numbers on the chassis???
Wouldn't it be a patent instead of a copywrite? I was under the opinion that a copywrite protected the name of something ........like the mcnugget or Tide soap or whatever?
Lot of people have those same things they just can't call them that? It's more of a question, im not sure.
If we can get enough orders, I will hire a welder and fabricator and copy/build Longhorn or Rockets and take my chances in front of a jury!!!! Place your order now
Heck Randy Sweet and CJ Rayburn should be suing everyone????????
Copyrights on Engineering proposals or plans protect your intellectual property. So a set up manual for it would be covered.
Prime example is the architect that pitched an idea for a sports themed park to Disney they passed but years later built a themed park. He won $248 million from Disney. So the debate is would a copyright if they had one on the design drawings cover it?
I think you’re probably right, it probably would be a patent. Thing is, you want to be competitve in the chassis business, you’re going to be making pretty major changes to whatever design fairly often, and I’d imagine that would have implications on the patent if they had one.
Getting a patent/copyright/trademark isn’t particularly expensive, but the process itself can be a bit of a pain in the ass. I could see it not really being worth the time in a constantly evolving business.
I asked larry shaw a long time ago why he did not apply for a patent and he said it would be to easy to break, change a few bars that are irrelevant and you have a new product....
The thing that bothers me about these cars, they're not professionally made. They look nice sitting there, i just wonder how safe they really are?
I seen a price, a bare frame was 5600, which is dirt cheap. But again, how safe are they?
Who sez the guys that weld other chassis are professional? There aren't any credntials required... you need electricity, gas, a welder and tubing.
And $5600 is about right for a bare late model chassis unless it's the latest boutique piece...
BTW... I'm now taking orders for repop'd obsolete Mastersbilt chassis' without the updates.
I have to laugh at how critcal people are on here sometimes.
So youre saying i could go get a job at longhorn welding cars together on a daily basis, even though i dont know jack sh!t about welding and you would buy it? Cuz we know what that would look like after its done.