Originally Posted by mtnbke

My favorite part from the Cannondale/Klein discovery process of that litigation was learning that Gary Klein had ripped off another student in their working group. Gary Klein's aluminum bikes used small aluminum tubing, it was another student that testified that broke open the case, that it was HIS bikes that had used oversize tubing. Regardless, Cannondale was able to prove "prior art" (aluminum bikes go back to the 1800s) and that they were motivated from experimenting with aluminum masts from sailing. To say Cannondale ripped off Gary Klein isn't fair to the young engineer that Gary Klein himself ripped off from that working group. Gary Klein wasn't the innovator at the beginning that he was later, he was just "in the room" with bright innovative minds and ran with it. He recognized the other students design and borrowed it. There is an absolutely scathing post out there from the actual other engineering student that eviscerates Gary Klein and details what work of this other MIT student was copied. The guy was pissed when he wrote it. He also discusses his testimony in the Cannondale Klein litigation.