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Old 01-21-2009, 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted by CBattaglia View Post
I am fairly new here and I have to say, I still dont get it. Its his, he invented it. As with any product duplication needs permissions. I have to think that everyone who got into the cloning business knew that going into it.
The with FFR the issue is "trade dress" or in plane language, the body shape of the Daytona Coupe. Unfortunately he expressly abandoned any claim to the coupe years ago. The suite against the FFcobra forum is even more confusing. Why sue your fan base for emulating your lifes work?

Interestingly too, although he claims "confusingly similar" body shapes he is not too confused to sign (for a fee) the dashboards of replica cobra's. Can you say hipocrite.

BTW if the suite is sucessful against FFCobra is clubcobra far behind?

Andrew
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