Satria Pisau Nusantara custom knives. Skinner/bushcraft

Lorien said:
intellectual property is the concept that has fueled the fire of innovation, particularly in the US. If you can't copy someone else's work and go ahead and sell it, without consequences, then there is far less reason to come up with something better.
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You're right. However now please define Intellectual property........

On a legal front this is done through Patents, Trademarks and copyrights.

Copyrights don't apply to knives and knife design.
Trademarks do apply, but only on the non functional aspects. (Which is why the Busse "Talon Hole" trademark defense was always a problem)
Patents...what would you like to patent on this knife? The bladeshape? The handle shape? The whole knife? The grind?

The aggressive pursuit of intellectual property is also something that is holding the world back from improving.
I'm all for propecting designs which is why I'd tell the maker to let people know that it was "Inspired" or "Based on" a certain knife. And if the maker was in full swing production (making 100's of these) then I'd probably politely ask them to stop or tell them that this isn't right.
But a single maker doing one or two of a certain knife design, not claiming to sell the originals, and doing a number of aspects completely different from the original makers? I hav no problems with that.

Just like I have no problem with people working on Loveless style, Scagel style or similar.
 
Well, I guess it's simply a Busse style knife :thumbup: After all it's not exactly 100% the same as the ori version, right? :p What say you Pisausaya?

mohd
 
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