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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;imrich, post: 24712397, member: 22331&quot;]I realize that you can&#039;t appreciate the efforts that go into a product, as I can, having been the designer of very complicated first generation equipment for an international ~90000 employee companies&#039; products.</p><p><br /></p><p>I designed/built/installed high-speed automated first-generation equipment for a very complicated product that our competitors produced manually at a speed less than 20% of our new multi-million facility/operation.</p><p><br /></p><p>An executive mandated that an opening in the product be changed from a critical curve which could be virtually any shape, to a two straight lines at a V-shape design, as a competitive product.</p><p><br /></p><p>Our product became the market leader for several years, at a competitive price, until I received a court order to deliver all of my personal notes about that new more practical design.</p><p><br /></p><p>The courts subsequently awarded all production equipment, and the funds received for sales of our product, to our competitor with 2 V-shaped lines.</p><p><br /></p><p>Copy-rights don&#039;t need to be documented, if a critical simple design element of an already produced product, is copied.</p><p><br /></p><p>A simple answer to a complicated inter-national process!!</p><p><br /></p><p>JMHO[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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