Steve,Barrowing is what designing is all about. I have been a designer for many years an very very seldom is a design totally new from the ground up.
When your stepping over the line is when you try to profit from someone's patented concept or claim something as your own when it was barrowed. Someone somewhere came to the conclusion that cars work best with four wheels on them. Designing your car with four wheels isn't cheating but claming that you though up the four wheel concept is.
I built a Ksub. Kittredge did the original K-350 design and I altered from it but it's still recognizably a K sub so I call mine a KH-350 which give him his due credit and still mentions that it's my version. It's more of a common courtesy thing. If I used some of his ideas and it didn't look so similar I could call it XYZ if I wanted to.
Dan H.----- Original Message ----- From: <psub101@iquest.net>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 10:59 AM Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Design Protection (patent) Question
All, Recently we have discussed benefits of using existing design concepts/philosophies that have been proven vs. designing too far out ofthe "box". I agree with this approach. Actually I can find a few commercialsubmersibles that are very much like my conceptual design(s) with usefully specifications given as well as the sizing/mechanics figured out etc. Myquestion is, at what point is "borrowing" exact aspects of another's design an issue? Obviously you would not assume any design would not need to be verifiedetc. Anyone else struggle with borrowing something that they have seen commercially? Steve McQueen, Indianapolis,IN ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ The personal submersibles mailing list complies with the US Federal CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Your email address appears in our database because either you, or someone you know, requested you receive messages from our organization. If you want to be removed from this mailing list simply click on the link below or send a blank email message to: removeme-personal_submersibles@psubs.org Removal of your email address from this mailing list occurs by an automated process and should be complete within five minutes of our server receiving your request. PSUBS.ORG PO Box 311 Weare, NH 03281 603-529-1100 ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************
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