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Originally Posted by THEHEADMULLET
Are boat builders ripping off the hull designs of older seacrafts and then altering the above the water part of the seacraft to hide the theft, or are they just using old hulls to make a molds, and nothing is illegal?
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patent protection expired 30+ years ago . . . there are plenty successful boat builders that used the seacraft hull. Why reinvent the wheel?