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Your first impulse with someone who has caused you grief in the past is to "get even" which is what several members advocated above. Various methods, but all are fraught with possibilities that could come back and bite you in the ass. The best way to handle folks like this is to either ignore them or send them and email simply stating that you are booked up and there is no possibility that you could work on their watch. Then if he emails you again, ignore them. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

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Doc, I'm not disagreeing with you that the guy is probably a scumbag that stole your design. No one is disputing that. But the fact is unless you have a copyright and or a patent on a design, it's unprotected. That's why corporations copyright everything before it gets out in the public domain. And to add to that, you are using Audemars Piguet's copyrighted logo, which in a sense makes your design illegal. Now if your bracelets were plain, and had no brand logos, then you could register the design, provided they weren't already taken. Another point, going back to your original threads several months ago, it seems like there was a lot of interest in your designs. If I remember correctly quite a few members asked you about making them a bracelet, and again if my memory serves me, you were very non committal, and in fact said that you were not going to make these to sell, as they were for your personal collection. In fact I was one who was interested, and asked about making them in sterling silver to get the price down where more people could afford them. My final point, it seems like you are painting the forums with a very broad brush, when you say there is no fairness on the forums. You are implicating the forum when in fact this is the work of one individual, who may or may not be a forum member. It could have been someone passing through who saw your thread and liked the bracelets. This is and open forum, we have no control over who visits. Good luck with trying to stop the Chinese from making these. If the price and volume are there, I would suspect that someone will agree to make them. If the Chinese scoff at the copyrights owned by Rolex, AP, Omega and every other major watch maker as well as every luxury goods manufacturer, you don't have much of a chance to stop the manufacturing of your bracelets. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

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I would bet that the bracelets this guy on is looking for are not really competition. Yours were constructed of the finest materials, fine grade diamonds, etc. I would bet that these will be gold plated, cubic zirconium, and while superficially similar, on close examination, just not the same. Another point, since you have to this point not offered your bracelets for sale, what this guy does is rather a moot point. He isn't taking sales away from you, because you have no product to sell. Possibly you have or had plans to market your bracelets, but from every indication I got from your previous posts, this was a personal project and you weren't interested in producing them for sale. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

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