Although of a proprietary design, is there anything about these pegs that would actually be patent-protected if they were made by multiple companies here? Sometimes it has to do with how many lawyers the plaintiff can afford. There's really nothing new about how they are machined or engineered, so I don't think anyone's could sue over someone else making them.
A few years ago, Tandy Corporation (parent company of Radio Shack) sued an auto parts retailer over their name "Auto Shack". Tandy, being a multi-billion-dollar company from Texas, was successful in getting Auto Shack to drop the word "Shack" from their name, even they did not invent the word. Ergo "Auto Zone"
Some time after Harley-Davisdson bought itself back from AMF, they sent their lawyers around to all the little independent shops and told them if they painted their buildings orange-and-black, if they used a bar-and-shield loge, or if they used the words "Harley or "Hog" on their signs, The Motor Company would sue their asses off. The irony was, these small shops kept H-D going when their build quality was circling the toilet drain, and if not for them, there might not have been much to buy back. Then, after the Japanese (and Europeans, too) started building and selling V-twin cruisers, The Motor Company sued to have the single-crankpin V-twin motor and it's "potato-potato" sound patent protected. When the judge asked "Did you invent the single-crankpin V-twin motor?" and they admitted they hadn't, the case was tossed out.
So, would these adjustable pegs actually be classified as intellectual property? Might depend on how good the suitor's lawyers were.
* Last updated by: Danno on 1/17/2013 @ 3:54 AM *
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