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| (...) For non-commercial uses, there doesn't seem to be a real problem. I think the railroad companies are pretty amenable (after all, it's really an honor to be modeled). I have no idea what the commercial companies do for the decals or lettered (...) (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| (for example, take the Shay drive train, if (...) Not in this case. The patent expired in 1922, so it is not a problem to blatently rip off the ideas. I believe even the Doble Steam car patents are now public domain, at least in the UK...and they (...) (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) My example was hypothetical. I figured it was a pretty good bet the patents had expired. It was just an example of something where I strongly suspect that there were patents which would have been applicable to models. (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) The reason why I knew about that one is that Willimette built rip offs of Shay's (called the West Coast Shay) starting in 22. Most anything to do with steam has passed the 50 year mark on the patents, and a lot of it has passed the 70 year (...) (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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