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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 115717" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: New Midas M32 ConsoleThose findings are a matter of record and not in dispute. Peavey invented and filed a patent for FLS trying to protect it from being copied and Behringer managed to legally knock-off that very successful product. Peavey sued to defend what it believed it had secured patent protection for. The court sided with Behringer. It is obviously clever business to knock off other company&#039;s successful products if you can. Parsing the narrow legal definitions about what is or is not a &quot;legal&quot; copy, means less than what is right and wrong to the court of public opinion. What actually happened is apparent to any who were active in the industry at the time. i view this as a matter of principle and ethics, not just what is legal. I also consider this ancient history. All this legal nit picking will not change my personal recollection of events that I lived. JR[edit- I did not see Joe&#039;s post before I posted this, so I am not responding to his specific comments. /edit]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 115717, member: 126"] Re: New Midas M32 Console Those findings are a matter of record and not in dispute. Peavey invented and filed a patent for FLS trying to protect it from being copied and Behringer managed to legally knock-off that very successful product. Peavey sued to defend what it believed it had secured patent protection for. The court sided with Behringer. It is obviously clever business to knock off other company's successful products if you can. Parsing the narrow legal definitions about what is or is not a "legal" copy, means less than what is right and wrong to the court of public opinion. What actually happened is apparent to any who were active in the industry at the time. i view this as a matter of principle and ethics, not just what is legal. I also consider this ancient history. All this legal nit picking will not change my personal recollection of events that I lived. JR [edit- I did not see Joe's post before I posted this, so I am not responding to his specific comments. /edit] [/QUOTE]

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