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Unread 05-03-2003, 15:19
Steven Carmain Steven Carmain is offline
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Originally posted by soezgg
my question: why would you patent it, and what purpose would that serve?
As it says earlier, the reason we patented it was so companys like Segway take our design and make a one ball Segway. It just stops companys from making money on our design.
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