Re: BobM - anything on your diagrams?

Posted by John T on January 09, 2006 at 12:26:07 from (66.244.90.98):

In Reply to: Re: BobM - anything on your diagrams? posted by Bob M on January 09, 2006 at 09:46:22:

Bob, I'm sure you spent considerable time and resources in compiling and publishing that great resource that has helped both Farmall and other tractor lovers. I was just wondering if you ever applied for or were granted any formal Copyright protection ?? Even if a person does nothing else, he might consider to at least stake a claim on his ownership of materials by placing his name and the (C) emblem on its face. Such might provide at least "constructive notice" to onlookers the material is protected, but its been tooooooo long since I studied Patent Law. (i.e. No Warranty on that info lol) It was after I retired from engineering I attended law school, but its still been a long time and thats NOT my area of practice. Regardless, if you establish you first developed and published some types of intellectual property and another simply copied it for sale and his own gain, a cause of action might still be available. Once, however, material becomes a part of the Public Domain no further protection exists which is why large companies so fiercely protect their names, trademarks and intellectual property. Look at things like Xerox, Kleenex, Band Aid, Aspirin, Styrofoam and how Band Aid now refers to their product as Band Aid Brand of Bandages etc.

Sorry again I was late on your Generator problem down a page or so, let us know about it and if e bay does anything, which I seriously doubt.

Ol John T in Indiana (Retired enginner and Country Lawyer)

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