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ToddACimer said:
Has anyone been threatened with a cease and desist over a patent or more appropriately a provisional patent pending?


I made some cool reverse lights for my truck. Improved on several commercially available ideas and posted about it on a Facebook group. I did not make these to sell and I did not sell these but I did post parts and instructions how to build them for about 1/4 the cost of the commercially available parts. I was informed that any revenue generated from this idea was protected by patent and would be pursued legally if necessary.

I don't really have a plan to make more but where does the gray area start on this?

My parts on the truck vs the other guy. IMO using factory mounting holes that exist on every truck doesn't make this idea patentable and installing different lights in a similar tube doesn't infringe on the idea.

Either way, backing up is better now.

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For personal use…tell them to pound sand…it’s a scare tactic. They won’t be able to lock you down on a design patent unless they could prove you copied the design precisely down to the last detail. That other guy is blowing smoke like a hooker on 2 for 1 nights at the local truck stop.

At best he may have a design patent…those are crazy easy to get around that I wouldn’t even worry about it.

Backup lights on a truck hitch is nothing new…and that other company sure as hell couldn’t prove original design intent.
 
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