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Re: SparkFun: We Hear You

#141

Post by dTal »

bfrog wrote: post #51
lrem wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apart from the part where the law turned out to be so broken to make it happen...

Its not broken if you consider it protecting the companies of the united states from knock offs. That company that made those multimeters had the full rainbow of colors and an infinite choice of shapes, dials, displays to choose from. They basically decided fluke was great, copied almost everything, sold it cheaper. If it were your product, which was a high quality product, and some cheap knock offs came in with basi…

Oh come on. Every multimeter I've ever owned was yellow. The Sparkfun multimeters look like every other cheap multimeter, and decidedly unlike Fluke's. It's not even the same damn shade of yellow.

This is pointless waste and a huge scandal.

Re: SparkFun: We Hear You

#142

Post by [deleted] »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #12

Wow, what an amazing and generous response from Fluke. I can't remember a better response from a company, ever, in a trademark / patent / copyright / licensing dispute. And it's all written in straightforward language without a lot of marketingese.

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Re: SparkFun: We Hear You

#143

Post by freehunter »

vacri wrote: post #110
userbinator wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Why in the world would/should Fluke give away ~$800,000 worth of product I've seen a lot more than that spent on marketing stunts, except in this case the consumers actually benefit by getting better equipment.

Marketing stunts don't usually give away the core product.

Do things that don't scale!

Re: SparkFun: We Hear You

#144

Post by 51Cards »

pepon wrote: post #140
thaumaturgy wrote: post #12

Wow, what an amazing and generous response from Fluke. I can't remember a better response from a company, ever, in a trademark / patent / copyright / licensing dispute. And it's all written in straightforward language without a lot of marketingese.

Amazing?? Generous?? Still prohibited selling yellow multimeters?? Is that a joke?? I think there are many Fluke PR employees posting messages telling what a great company Fluke is for this response... IMHO, this patent is just ridiculous.

This isn't a Patent, it's a Trademark.

Re: SparkFun: We Hear You

#145

Post by vertex-four »

pepon wrote: post #140
thaumaturgy wrote: post #12

Wow, what an amazing and generous response from Fluke. I can't remember a better response from a company, ever, in a trademark / patent / copyright / licensing dispute. And it's all written in straightforward language without a lot of marketingese.

Amazing?? Generous?? Still prohibited selling yellow multimeters?? Is that a joke?? I think there are many Fluke PR employees posting messages telling what a great company Fluke is for this response... IMHO, this patent is just ridiculous.

Not yellow multimeters. Multimeters with a dark coloured face, with a yellow border around the face.

Re: SparkFun: We Hear You

#146

Post by jbenz »

IgorPartola wrote: post #139
fnordfnordfnord wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jack Daniels does it with class too. http://brokenpianoforpresident.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/j...

That's fantastic. I bet you this cost everyone less money then litigation. The only way they could have made this better is if they sent the author a bottle too. I have come to believe that there are contracts and there are intentions behind the contracts. A person or a company can sign a contract, and have no plans to fulfill it and at the same time a person or a company can fulfill a promise without signing any con…

For the record, Jack Daniels sent us a Cease & Desist recently and it was not nearly as nice as this one. It was your standard "stop doing this or we will take action" C&D. (We had parody t-shirt designs in our user gallery.) A letter like this would've been easier to swallow.

Re: SparkFun: We Hear You

#147

Post by dlhavema »

sp332 wrote: post #132
Jtsummers wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you didn't notice the big Fluke logo in the top right? (perhaps it's not present on mobile?)

I didn't notice until after you mentioned it. That said, at first I thought the letter was from SparkFun so maybe I'm not very awake today!

I thought it was from Sparkfun as well, but it's also early and I didn't know of the situation until reading this response.

Re: SparkFun: We Hear You

#148

Post by joezydeco »

pepon wrote: post #140
thaumaturgy wrote: post #12

Wow, what an amazing and generous response from Fluke. I can't remember a better response from a company, ever, in a trademark / patent / copyright / licensing dispute. And it's all written in straightforward language without a lot of marketingese.

Amazing?? Generous?? Still prohibited selling yellow multimeters?? Is that a joke?? I think there are many Fluke PR employees posting messages telling what a great company Fluke is for this response... IMHO, this patent is just ridiculous.

How many products have you designed and shipped? If that number is non-zero, have you had a problem with cheap offshore reproductions messing with your business?

Re: SparkFun: We Hear You

#149

Post by michael_h »

dTal wrote: post #141
bfrog wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its not broken if you consider it protecting the companies of the united states from knock offs. That company that made those multimeters had the full rainbow of colors and an infinite choice of shapes, dials, displays to choose from. They basically decided fluke was great, copied almost everything, sold it cheaper. If it were your product, which was a high quality product, and some cheap knock offs came in with basi…

Oh come on. Every multimeter I've ever owned was yellow. The Sparkfun multimeters look like every other cheap multimeter, and decidedly unlike Fluke's. It's not even the same damn shade of yellow. This is pointless waste and a huge scandal.

  Every multimeter I've ever owned was yellow.
Fluke is yellow border with a dark gray/black face. Not 'yellow multimeter'.

Re: SparkFun: We Hear You

#150

Post by joezydeco »

dTal wrote: post #141
bfrog wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its not broken if you consider it protecting the companies of the united states from knock offs. That company that made those multimeters had the full rainbow of colors and an infinite choice of shapes, dials, displays to choose from. They basically decided fluke was great, copied almost everything, sold it cheaper. If it were your product, which was a high quality product, and some cheap knock offs came in with basi…

Oh come on. Every multimeter I've ever owned was yellow. The Sparkfun multimeters look like every other cheap multimeter, and decidedly unlike Fluke's. It's not even the same damn shade of yellow. This is pointless waste and a huge scandal.

Does that mean Fluke forfeits the right to try and stop the flow of knockoff products?
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