[mr bruce]

In 1962 ,or there abouts , a young fellow by the name of Bruce Meyers" invented " the fibreglass body dune buggy. For the next few years he made many of these bodys, but so did many "pirates". You see ,anybody with some knowlege of fibre glass could see that if they got one of Bruce's bodys, they could use it as a "plug" and splash a mold from it.Well after seeing that half of southern Califonia was splashing his original design, Bruce tried to sue the splashers. At the court case the judge rulled that too much time had passed, Bruce didn't get a design patent soon enough, the "shape was in the public domain".These events happened in the space of 6 or 7 years. (Mr Shelby has taken 30 + years, and is a friend of Bruce Meyers ,so he is well aware of the case) Check it out lawyer types, it's in Califonia case law.circa 1971, I think it's what you guys refer to as "precident"