Mr. Bryan,
I will not even entertain a response to your letter as it is pure diatribe an a insult to both our collective intelligence. Your clients continued predilection for irrelevancy will not prevent me from pursuing her in her endeavor to steal my designs and those who design for BOSS knives. She is to discontinue the sale of products which infringe on my intellectual property rights and those of my designers effective immediately. I understand you are under an obligation to protect the best interests of your client. With that being the case advise her and remind her that she physically assaulted me on 2 occasions with a total of 7 witnesses watching. Once in Las Vegas as she through a book at me that I gave her as a peace offering and the other in Orlando when she came from behind her table and pushed me with force. I made certain that people watched in both incidents and she will remember me pointing to them during both incidents.
As for any of her outlandish allegations outlined in your letter I deny each and every one of them and challenge her to produce one reputable witness that is NOT in her employ.
I would venture a guess that she did not disclose either of these two incidents to you both, now did she?
Let's cut to the chase. She in no way can produce any FACTUAL evidence that Mr. Tan is the originator of the designs in question. To prove this simply talk to Mr. Tan and see if he is willing to show up in court with supporting evidence that he in fact created the designs in question. I can, and WILL, provide evidence that Liong Mah, Monty Fielding, David Winch, among others are in FACT the individuals who created the designs that Joy Enterprises is currently selling under the Fury brand. In fact I would venture a guess that Mrs. Shelton has never once stepped foot inside the very factory where these knives are made. I have, and I have seen the tooling and I know who made the tooling and the orders. Need proof? Check out the attached images and you will see images form the factory where her knives were made and who actually made them. She does not even know who made her knives as she probably deals through an agent and not the actual factory.
Now it would be in your clients best interest to drop any and all efforts she may have to defend herself, including any pending charges she has attempted to file against me, or I assure you it will be the most embarrassing situation she will have ever put herself or her company into.
I will make this offer and only once will this offer be made. If I receive a letter signed by all officers of Joy Enterprises that states they will discontinue the sale of all products that infringe on my designs and those who design for BOSS knives from this day forward and any and all designs for any other companies which I license designs for then I will adhere to the spirit of your letter and refrain from any contact with Mrs. Shelton and Joy Enterprises. Further, all images, text or any other reference to designs which are owned by BOSS in her catalog or any media which she uses to promote her or Joy's products must be removed, listed as discontinued or otherwise notified that these products are no longer for sale. All sales which have been made to date will be forgiven should this letter be received by Wednesday February 26th, 2003 or she can hand deliver the signed documents to me in Las Vegas. Should this letter not be in my hands by close of business March 6th then Joy will be responsible for damages as outlined by US law.
You claim in your letter that Mr. Tan's design of the Mini Raptor is enclosed. No such enclosure is found. I suggest you contact Mr. Tan for yourself and before you entertain defending his designs. You may want to verify you have a leg to stand on for yourself. If you are going strictly on the information supplied to you by your client, then I wish you good luck as it will make for a very interesting and enlightening day in court for you.
In your letter you reference patent law. Can you please advise me of any incident where I referenced any patent? Again you are listening to your client. As you may have already concluded I am very careful in my wording. I may be colorful at times and I may seem like a school yard bully but rest assure I have done my homework here and your client is in the wrong. You have the audacity to instruct me when your client is the one who is selling stolen designs? Here are my instructions for you and your client.
At any future shows, you are instructed as follows:
A. Your people will not come to the display booth operated by me or any company I work with.
B. Your company will not display or offer for sale any product which is considered a knock off of any design we market under the BOSS name or any future endeavor in which Mike Turber is involved..
C. You client is instructed to never physically or verbally abuse myself or anyone which is associated with my company
D. Any and all correspondence you send to me will be made immediately available to the public through any means I have at my disposal. The only way to avoid this will be to discontinue selling or offering for sale the items in question and to agree to never do so again.
I still own at least a few of those. Do I use them? No. I use my Benchmades now. I won't buy a knock off these days, and I do agree that it's a problem. But I don't expect one person to try to represent the entire industry. I applaud Mike for what he's doing. Even one knock-off seller eliminated is a start.