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doo540 · 05.15.2009, 10:19 AM

The chinese dont care about patents, the US patents mean nothing in China, the US goverment has no power in China at all in this area, the patents do keep American companies from stealing designs that is true. So what are you going to say when Integy starts selling the Slipperential? Do you think Mike will go after them?

How do we know that HPI doesn't have a patent on the BAJA? Granted it is a large scale buggy so maybe there is no patent on it, but for another company to reproduce the baja in such detail that HPI parts fit on it with no mods, doesn't seem to be to be very good business pratice to me.

I will support HPI and not the copy cat companies, HPI took the risk to invest money into the program, provide good customer support and therefore have earned the right to my business.

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doo540 RC-Monster Carbon Fiber Offline Posts: 310 Join Date: Jul 2008	05.15.2009, 10:19 AM The chinese dont care about patents, the US patents mean nothing in China, the US goverment has no power in China at all in this area, the patents do keep American companies from stealing designs that is true. So what are you going to say when Integy starts selling the Slipperential? Do you think Mike will go after them? How do we know that HPI doesn't have a patent on the BAJA? Granted it is a large scale buggy so maybe there is no patent on it, but for another company to reproduce the baja in such detail that HPI parts fit on it with no mods, doesn't seem to be to be very good business pratice to me. I will support HPI and not the copy cat companies, HPI took the risk to invest money into the program, provide good customer support and therefore have earned the right to my business.