I am not justifying anything. First thing is that you are assuming that by copying a product there is some intellectual theft involved. There may be or there may not be. Was there any intellectual theft on SM part of the Broader product? Probably not, he was not the first guy to come up with a transbrake, he "stole" that intellectual property from someone else, he did not come up with the C4 Valve body that was "stolen" from someone else, he did not come up with the solenoid that was "stolen" from someone else. So what intellectual property did SM steal that Broader that did not "steal" beforehand? The only thing SM "stole" was the look of the product and obviously the issue here is that the product has the Broader trademark on it. If you do not want to have the look of your product stolen you can get a design patent for it if that is the only "new" thing your product offers. If that SM valve body did not have their name on it NO ONE WOULD CARE. Almost everything we buy now was copied from someone else, and your car and my car have a TON of copied product on them that no one gives one iota about.
You want to know how much everything is copied? I once had a friend who knew both Ed Iskendarian and Harvey Crane, he has a speed shop that started in the early fifties and ran all the way to the early 2000's. Ed Iskendarian used to ***** all the time about how Crane stole his camshaft ideas and patterns. My buddy would by the Isky cams and sell them to Harvey Crane... Before the China man was doing it to us we were doing it to us we were doing it to ourselves.
