Having witnessed companies go after each other about patents I can say only
one thing, get it off your site immediately! Big companies have much more
more money than you do. They can afford expensive lawyers, why would you
even want to? You are not gaining anything by keeping it on the site, it is
not even your design.
What they can do:
1. Shut down your site.
2. Sue you for patent infringment since you have posted designs for thier
patent.
3. Unless the original creator of the design pursues a patent, and is
willing to invest a lot of money in lawyers and court costs, I doubt anyone
will win this battle. They obviously have a lot of money invested in thier
product and WILL fight to the death for thier patent.
4. Yes they CAN sue you even if you don't make any money off of it.
5. Even if you win, it will cost you $10k minimum for lawyer fees, that is
if they give up early in the fight. They won't though.
It is ultimately up to you, but I am just trying to help you out and save
you a lot of grief. I would hate to see you get hurt in this battle that you
probably would never win. Freedome of speech is what we are talking about,
but this is America we are talking about, he who has the most money for the
lawyers wins!
Mark Kuzia
flyboy01@mediaone.net
http://people.mw.mediaone.net/flyboy01/home.html
1995 Dakota 13.79 @ 99.52 mph
360ci, 5-spd, 4.11 LS, Ram-air
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Schroeder" <schroema@hotmail.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 5:15 PM
Subject: DML: Re: Re: DML and Patent violation problem
> That's nothing but TOTAL BULL. If you're not selling anything you can't
be
> infringing on patent rights. Patent law was designed for the sole reason
to
> protect people's rights to designs and ideas that are marketable from
being
> produced and SOLD by others.
>
> Politely tell them to jump in a lake. :-)
>
> If this were true I wouldn't be able to fabricate anything for myself
> because most all worthy items are patented.
>
> Matt Schroeder
> Burnsville, MN
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