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tommyboy74

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Storm Turbine Core and a Lord Field Turbine Core?
« on: February 21, 2014, 09:28:05 PM »
Here is an interesting question.  Ever see 2 cores from 2 separate companies named the same thing?

Storm Turbine Core:  https://www.stormbowling.com/products/balls/lightsout

Lord Field Turbine Core:  http://www.lfbowling.com/index.php/hikashop-menu-for-categories-listing/product/9448-get-some

Trademark infringement anyone...
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Re: Storm Turbine Core and a Lord Field Turbine Core?
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2014, 06:48:27 AM »
You'll find that a lot, however, I wouldn't call it copyright infringement. All companies come out with variation of other companies successes with differences to put their own stamp on the ball and separate it from the ball they were trying to mimic. While the Get Some looks like the Turbine core, it has differences in shape and completely different numbers so the balls are doing different things even though the cores are shaped similar.
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Re: Storm Turbine Core and a Lord Field Turbine Core?
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2014, 07:22:23 AM »
Think of the Shape Lock HD versus the Shape Lock LD
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Re: Storm Turbine Core and a Lord Field Turbine Core?
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2014, 07:28:11 AM »
Only reason I only thought about possible trademark issues was because of the issue that happened between the Storm Domination and the Ebonite Mission Domination.  Ebonite ended up having to rename the ball Mission $250k.
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Re: Storm Turbine Core and a Lord Field Turbine Core?
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2014, 08:11:25 AM »
Only reason I only thought about possible trademark issues was because of the issue that happened between the Storm Domination and the Ebonite Mission Domination.  Ebonite ended up having to rename the ball Mission $250k.

But 900G "owned" that light bulb core for years, via the link from Columbia. The new Columbia called their mutated version a modified "Messenger" core. Neither the new Columbia or the old one (00G, sued Storm for using the Messenger core and calling it the "turbine' core.

So I doubt if anyone of them would bother suing Lord Field for calling its core a Turbine core. Its shape actually looks nothing like the Messenger core. Its squatter and has angles instead of being a smooth spheroid.
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