Originally Posted by
FlashBazbo
If Choi and Forsman wanted to do their own thing, they should have been smart enough to create a time gap and DOCUMENT that their back-of-napkin sketches were made after they left. It's a simple I.Q. test. Between the documentary evidence and the perps' public pronouncements, they are done. (Nightmare clients.)
As a non-lawyer, I was thinking pretty much the same thing. They're going to court, and they're shooting their mouths off? What the?
Originally Posted by FlashBazbo
Side issue . . . do you really want to buy a bike frame from guys so inattentive to basic details? I'm no Specialized fan (much the contrary after my Tarmac experience), but these guys would have been better served to wave a white flag and give Specialized their royalty. It would have been cheaper than legal fees.
I was thinking they would've been better off getting an investment from Specialized. Starting a high-end bike company can't be cheap.
That said, I wouldn't necessarily connect a lack of legal acumen with skills in designing and assembling bicycles.