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there was a classic case of this kind of thing a while back in Canada - a small domestic whistle manufacturer copied by a chinese manufacturer and undercut on price. They had a patent to protect it, but it was moot because the larger company dragged it through the courts until the original manufacturer went bankrupt.
We've had the patent debate here before and I don't really want to rehash it... but for a small manufacturer, sometimes, it is better to not bother with the patent + keep trade secrets secret... sometimes a design is obviously easy to reverse engineer/copy and that is more tough...
this is a result of our "more stuff as cheap as possible" lifestyle in North America...
->Posting last edited on Fri, 9 Nov 2012 13:38:50.
Posts in this Thread:
- craftsman going downhill and offshore, brick8, Thu, 8 Nov 2012 18:39:03
- Re: craftsman going downhill and offshore, TimN , Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:58:48
- Re: craftsman going downhill and offshore, Snowmobile , Fri, 9 Nov 2012 13:38:12 <-- Viewing This Message
- disheartening....we tried didn't we, GFW3pedals , Fri, 9 Nov 2012 08:01:13
- Source for US made (and fair labor country made) tools, MI-Roger , Fri, 9 Nov 2012 03:50:59
- It's been heading downhill for awhile, Chadwick , Thu, 8 Nov 2012 19:15:40
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