Cloned Slipperential?

[suicideneil]

Well, I just got an interesting email back from that TCS place thats selling the slipperential clones:

Originally Posted by bunch of funts

Hi,

Pls send us the document if this is patent product.

Tks,
Tcmodels
------原始訊息------

寄件者：N Ward
收件者：info@tcmodels.net
主旨： TCMODELS: slipperential
寄件時間：2010年4月4日 03:52

This is an enquiry e-mail via http://www.tcmodels.net/ from:
N Ward <suicideneil@hotmail.com>

This design is copyrighted and protected by international patents, it is the intellectual property of RC-Monster.com & as such you must remove it for sale from your website, or face severe legal repercussions.


Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

Please note I dont own a Blackberry, that is tagged on autonmatically by the device the responce was sent from ( the cloner ).

I'd assume patent-pending is close enough to patented to scare the cloners into stopping production & removing their version from sale? Probably wont, but if Mike sends them the patent # & info then they cant deny they havent just copied his design without realising...