Cloned Slipperential?

[suicideneil]

I got a response:

Dear Mr. Ward,

its was abolutely not our intention to hurt any pending patents. Also we send the differential to the loyer to apply a european patent.

I'll check back with our patent department how this could happened and the actuall status.

I'll come back to you very soon!

Best regards

Andreas Wild
Product Manager.

Hmm, I wonder if Mike has applied for a world wide patent or just a US one?...

[JERRY2KONE]

Could you imagine what that must be like? We see how hard it is just to protect things within the USA, I can only imagine how difficult it must be to protect products on every continent. The costs of doing so must be astronomical. Man what a PITA. Sorry to see your work being exploited Mike.