Jon,
I was sending this in response to your PM, I hope you don't mind my posting it here instead...
Thank you for your comments, and first off I am pleased that we can have a reasonable discussion.
I am delighted that you liked my stove design and I am entirely happy for the stove to be made by others on a not for profit basis.
However, the stoves are clearly now being *marketed* on the Woodland Edge website as a commercial product.
Being "significantly different" is a matter of opinion and the UK Patent Office suggests that a design should "have individual character" and not "remind an informed person of an existing design". I do not believe that the woodland edge stove is sufficiently different to meet these criteria.
I have a clearly established and published prior claim to the intellectual property of this design. As does Mimblewill Nomad, who I duly credited, before me. You have conceded that you passed my design to Woodland Edge as a basis for their design. This should not have been done without my permission and without them being fully aware of the origins.
I believe their marketing of the product to be an infringement of my own (as we are in the UK and Nimblewill Nomad is not) design right, which provides an automatic 5 year protection and does not require registration.
However, bearing in mind the spirit of my original posting of my design on the forum I am happy to accept your apology.
This does still leave the problem of Woodland Edge and it is my intention to pursue the matter further as I now know this to be a commercial exercise on their part.
Regards,
Scoops_uk
I was sending this in response to your PM, I hope you don't mind my posting it here instead...
Thank you for your comments, and first off I am pleased that we can have a reasonable discussion.
I am delighted that you liked my stove design and I am entirely happy for the stove to be made by others on a not for profit basis.
However, the stoves are clearly now being *marketed* on the Woodland Edge website as a commercial product.
Being "significantly different" is a matter of opinion and the UK Patent Office suggests that a design should "have individual character" and not "remind an informed person of an existing design". I do not believe that the woodland edge stove is sufficiently different to meet these criteria.
I have a clearly established and published prior claim to the intellectual property of this design. As does Mimblewill Nomad, who I duly credited, before me. You have conceded that you passed my design to Woodland Edge as a basis for their design. This should not have been done without my permission and without them being fully aware of the origins.
I believe their marketing of the product to be an infringement of my own (as we are in the UK and Nimblewill Nomad is not) design right, which provides an automatic 5 year protection and does not require registration.
However, bearing in mind the spirit of my original posting of my design on the forum I am happy to accept your apology.
This does still leave the problem of Woodland Edge and it is my intention to pursue the matter further as I now know this to be a commercial exercise on their part.
Regards,
Scoops_uk