[JERRY2KONE]

Congrats, I guess??? I mean congats to you for accomplishing what you started out to do by acquiring the patent, but looking at this from an outside perspective this seems to be pretty much useless with all of the copyright issues that you and Robin have already gone through. It seems that the only way this actually pays off is if the products you are producing are themselves worth millions of $$$$$$$$$$. Protecting anything with a smaller value seems to be a futile effort at best. Plus the three years of waiting and the overall out of pocket cost just seem incredibly rediculous.

I'm happy to see that you finally made it through the total process, but sorry to see that it has not really accomplished what you intended from the start, which was to keep anyone else from making copies of your fantastic design. I have not really been looking around since that chinese clone showed up a while back, but I have not seen them around much since. Even so considering the quality of that copy as the saying goes you get what you pay for, right? Its just like Robin's designs over on UE. Even though there have been a few copies made they were still nowhere near the same quality making them a poor substitute. The amount of loss they may have cost just isnt worth getting all worked up over IMHO. Just keep making good parts and the real hobbiests will always come back for more. This is the part that we have tried to convey to Robin. If he makes the parts we will buy them. Not some cheap copycats junk. There is some loyalty with this hobby. Between what RCM, UE, & HCR put out these three have been the best in qualty, and the rest have been smoke and mirrors. Keep it up guys. USA, USA, USA, USA.