Manic Mechanic sprocket adapter

Their copies of my parts were nothing but an attempt to confuse the new guys into buying...everyone knows that the Manic Mechanic adapters work...everyone knows that Pirate Cycles was a distributor of our products...the perfect plan...copy our stuff and ride the Manic Mechanic gravy train...but not for long!

Jim
 
Their copies of my parts were nothing but an attempt to confuse the new guys into buying...everyone knows that the Manic Mechanic adapters work...everyone knows that Pirate Cycles was a distributor of our products...the perfect plan...copy our stuff and ride the Manic Mechanic gravy train...but not for long!

Jim

Sucks that this has happened :(

If you're looking for an Australian Distributor Rock Solid is good :D and i'm sure you know who i'm tlaking about.

( if shipping kills the price perhaps you can organise a royalty or a license to manufacture and distribute ? )

I have nothing but praise for your designs and hard work. The motor-bicycling community wouldn't have the "high end" stuff it has now without your input :)
 
Yea, your unit still hangs tough and I am not very kind to it. I ride a LOT. Solid as stone... I still think keelhauling is a good idea, BTW...
Just went over some final details with Brewster Manufacturing in Washington State- they are doing the set-up as we speak. Slight re-design, taking advantage of C-N-C's capacity over me doing crank-and-dial with lathe and mill (Allowed for heavier bolts holding it together). 'Fraid to say, you've got competition now... but then you've had that before, so no big trick right? We'll see where it goes from here.
the Old Sgt.
 
Sucks that this has happened :(

If you're looking for an Australian Distributor Rock Solid is good :D and i'm sure you know who i'm tlaking about.

( if shipping kills the price perhaps you can organise a royalty or a license to manufacture and distribute ? )

I have nothing but praise for your designs and hard work. The motor-bicycling community wouldn't have the "high end" stuff it has now without your input :)

Thank you Impression!

Tony is a great guy! We did do a bit of business, but as you noted...the shipping was cost prohibitive.

Single items don't cause a problem...once the dollar amount escalates for a quantity...things get sticky.

Jim
 
The copyright on the design will 'theoretically' prevent others from using the design documents (blueprints, etc.) that you've copyrighted to use in building their product, unless they can prove that your documents had no effect on the development of their design documents.

In the software world, copyrights are often effective for this.

In order to 'defeat' a software copyright, the offending company would have to prove in court that their design team was not impacted in any way by viewing the copyrighted design. This was often accomplished by the company having two separate entities at work. The first entity would create a set of low-level specifications from the copyrighted software. The other company would often farm this task out to a separate, isolated organization, or even to a third party. The only information provided to the software writers is that specification. Then, the programming team would create a product from scratch, based on the specifications, and only on the specifications.

A copyright does protect your work, but if the other company did produce a virtually identical product, with no prior knowledge of your work, they did not violate any copyright laws.

With a patent, on the other hand, it doesn't matter how the other company arrived at their design - if it violates your patent, they have broken patent law, and they can be sued for damages.
 
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