Cheers

Douglas Adams spotted it wonderfully in HHGTTG: we should build two giant spaceships, fill the first one with politicians, middlemen, lawyers, accountants and bureaucrats because they’re the cream of our society and send it to colonise another distant planet, leaving the second ship for the rest of us.
Then we simply forget to send the second spaceship.

BTW, if this is just a naming issue, how about renaming the device Flux Supercapacitor?

i love it when you get your aussie freakouts…keep ‘em coming !

http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/detail/EMB0/121G.oap?keyword=121g

Too bad they don’t offer online ordering…

The idea of copyrights and patents as a way to let smaller companies develop and build on new ideas seems completely lost nowadays. But its really refreshing to see someone give all the big companies misusing these concepts them the finger and tell them to f**k of!

The patent system is really breaking down, sort of with all these purely patent trolling companies appering that dont even produce products!

Well, enough ranting about that =) Really nice blog though!

There is a reference to a “flux capacitor” even in Malcolm in the middle (season 5 episode 1 – 5 mins in) “considering the 12 million I saved them with my idea for outsourcing flux capacitors.” I don’t see that episode being taken down…. (or any reason why it should be)

Once you stick your face out of the basket you can be a target.
Your store simply does not want to fight because it does not worth for them.. They have plenty of other designs to sell…
Universal has an entire legal department surfing the net looking for this kind of thing…
If they copyrighted the NAME Flux Capacitor in the country that your store is hosted and a drawing that resembles yours… you are F….
It does not need to be an exact match…
So it is means WAR ! (From Bugs Bunny).. If you want to get serious about selling stuff you better get your own shark.. or layer (the official name).
And do a copyright check prior to start selling anything…
Or simply host your store in China. No copyright there.. The issue there is that if your design sells a lot.. They will make their own pirate copies and sell 10x cheaper then you
Global economy mate !

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Flux resistors!
Flux inductors!
Flux memristors!

…and don’t forget the fluxless ROHS capacitor shirt!

Mario.

You want to get someone in Iran to produce the t shirts for you.

They won’t give a toss about american lawyers!

On the other hand I think I got one of the last
ones, don’t produce any more and they’ll be
worth a fortune when you’re King of Australia.

Nial.

and

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4006:mdsv0m.2.3

Seems to be the only two active trademarks for that name, either of which are nbc

Also, ARGH! 4 or 5 of us at work were planning to get this lovely shirt. Now we’ll need a time machine to obtain them.

Its an existing device.
Should be no problem.

Or else try the inverse. A Charge Inductor?

Doc: The justice system works swiftly in the future now that they’ve abolished all lawyers.

… Maybe some day.

CONDENSER

The “Flux Condenser” – only true geeks would understand that!

Anders
Lund, Sweden

John
Halifax, Canada

A start (b’dum tish)

Old ones are the best.

google “flux capacitor” + “sales” (etc)
for all hits send dmca takedown

the dmca is a double edged sword.

You should talk to Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF.org). They are dealing with that kind of BS all the time. I know there is organization with same name in Australia, but it is not the same.

I am not a lawyer, but using the name ‘Flux Capacitor’ should not be copyright infringement and DMCA should not apply. DMCA is only for protecting copyright not a trade marks.

Of course the Universal will say something different.

All those copyright cases reminds me the East-European communists. They have been given privileges and they become accustom and they start acting like it their God given rights and abuse them. Exactly the same thing is happening in US. Congress is corrupted it is passing more and more ridiculous laws like DMCA. So I can predict US is going in the same direction like USSR. I only hope that people wake up and make real change before is too late.

Best regards and continue the good work,
SAL-e

ps. More and more I think those guys are right:
againstmonopoly.org

Btw. in the german translation of the movie, they made a slight mistake and called the flux capacitor “Flux Kompensator”. If it turns out to be a naming issue, you could try to call your T-shirt “The Flux Compensator Shirt”, so maybe the laywers are not going to find it anymore .

Dave, keep up your great work! I totally love your video blog!

Greatings from Germany!

Back to the Future is one of my favourite movies too. In fact, I love the whole trilogy (although the third one was waning just a tad).

Hope you get the T-Shirts back online!

Brian

DMCA takedowns require the host to take down the infringing content immediately to maintain safe harbor protections, but on the flip side, a DMCA takedown can be reversed, and the host must put the content back up upon your request if you say that it’s your own content.

(Granted, this opens you up to a real, full-blown lawsuit, and if you’re judged guilty of infringement, IIRC, it also opens you up to a perjury case.)

IANAL, however.

But I won’t be sad on the day they’re all lined up against the wall.