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How much of any of this is our individual IP?
Rick:
--- Quote from: pbj on February 17, 2015, 04:02:15 pm ---If I understand correctly, you copied someone else's business idea but are butthurt that someone attempted to do it to you?
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Umm, no? I didn't steal anything. I'm not using other people's designs. I drew everything from scratch in Solidworks.
pbj:
Is English your first language?
Rick:
--- Quote from: pbj on February 17, 2015, 04:06:45 pm ---Is English your first language?
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Yes.
pbj:
Go figure.
So who was trying to duplicate your cabinets?
horizon:
--- Quote from: Rick on February 17, 2015, 03:49:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: horizon on February 17, 2015, 02:35:51 pm ---And if someone can prove that you've essentially reproduced unoriginal work with slight aesthetic changes which may or may not be unique, you don't have IP - which is one of the points I made earlier in the thread - you couldn't go after them selling the design. By your own admission, there is no copyright, trademark, or any other patent holding the idea(s) as your own, right?
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I'll have to disagree with you here.
Consider Coke, Pepsi, and any other cola out there. There are definite differences in taste, however each of their products share many of the exact same ingredients. You could not keep the exact ingredients in the exact measure and keep the exact same production process, or else you'd be infringing on their rights, however, if you modify them even slightly, you have a unique product, and you can now claim intellectual property rules.
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So, actually trade secrets falls under IP, as pointed above with the KFC recipe. Your example of Coke and Pepsi alone - they do make cola. However, cola is not IP. Their iteration of cola is (isn't RC the original or something?), and their recipes are vastly unique enough to be patented in one form or another even though they hold similar ingredients. The amounts of the like ingredients are different, as is the taste, color, and viscosity (potentially) of each of these products.
This particular debate reminds me of vacuum cleaners. Dyson did not make the first cyclone vacuum (fact check needed, just making a point), and possibly not Hoover, Dirt Devil, or Oreck. But they do all make them. Dyson, however, has a patent on HOW they achieve the cyclone suction, which cannot be reproduced without their consent. The way they achieve cyclonic suction is their IP. '
Imagine the butt puckers if OND retroactively trademarked his designs and charged people 600 dollars each. Whoops.
:cheers:
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