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hey i thought i saw something on here where some company got their turbo kit off of someone on this board's idea or design, is this true??, if so..how would you go about protecting your idea and presenting? is it just a matter of patenting, and is that a long process??


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yeh what are you trying to figure out?????

 
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yea....lol what he said

 
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so u are making a turbo kit of ur own and u want to sell it to a company?.......or am i just a lost as everyone else?

 
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I think he has an idea for a setup and doenst want some other company to rip off his design, am I right? If so youd prob have to look into a patent or something like that.

 
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honestly, I don't believe you could patent the idea unless you designed everything from the ground up. That is to say you built your own turbo, computer management system, piping, and so forth. All you'll be doing is taking other people's patented equipment and assembling and/or arranging it in a certain order. So I would venture to say, No.

However that is not to say you couldn't assemble the kit, document and photograph the installation of the project, get the written consent of all companies whose parts you used and then sell the instruction manual.

 
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i think hes saying he heard that a company took a turbo design off a member here

 
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Yea, that seems like the way you would have to do it

 
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Dont worry If its for our cars you wont have anybody ripping ya off, half the people out there that were making em went under anyway, The only one left that I know of who's worthy is dezod!

 
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lol

yea if you read the title then the post i tried to say that i have an idea about a kit, and wanted to see about presenting it to a company and i wanted to know about what i would need to do about protecting the idea.....preferably from anyone who has gone through this like the alleged person who's idea was used for a kit already...