Brand New Pool Table Projection System.

denwhit said:
Robin wanted to work with you, flew out to your house but found out you will not work on the system. He has been begging you to upgrade the system with modifications for over a 1.5 years and you wouldn't do it. So, with that in mind, he made a better one.
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If this is the case, why not do the upgrades within the partnership (if there was indeed a partnership) or at the least give full credit for the ideas that were "borrowed'?

Hope it gets resolved to the satisfaction of all.
 
mjflanman32 said:
Denwhit was our 17th customer and robin dreyer was in our basement learning how to steal a great idea. and now the two of them are in business together, for a lot more money and not as many features. but some of the ones they do have they stole from us. Brilliant fellows
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The truth comes out.
 
jokrswylde said:
... intellectual property can be protected. If so, you should have legal recourse....
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In a market that likely tops out at a few tens of thousands of dollars I think any legal action is not going to be useful.
 
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Bob Jewett said:
In a market that unlikely tops out at a few tens of thousands of dollars I think any legal action is not going to be useful.
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Also think it's unlikely that the cost of a obtaining a patent (though it's probably a bit late to pursue that) would ever be paid back.
 
slach said:
Also think it's unlikely that the cost of a obtaining a patent (though it's probably a bit late to pursue that) would ever be paid back.
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For those who are wondering about what that cost would be, the on-line info says that to file the patent is going to run you around $8000 -- less if you can do more of the work yourself or more if you depend on a patent attorney to deal with the Patent Office. In addition, to put a granted patent into force is going to cost a small inventor $2600 for the first 10 years of protection.

The interwebz says that if the patent is about a complicated thing like software or such, it's going to cost more. A new way to bend coathangers costs less.

It's not clear what could be patented for a projection pool training system, but I bet the descriptions and claims (claims are a legal term meaning the specific new, useful things the patent describes) are going to be pretty convoluted and complicated.

Bob <-- first patent US4342008A, latest patent US10069505B1
 
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