Lionel Vs K-Line both respones in one place

[rtraincollector]

Lionels first

QUOTE: Jerry Calabrese statement concerning K-Line lawsuit
07/29/2005


As many of you already know, Lionel has filed a lawsuit, asking the court to stop one of our competitors, K-Line, from selling products that we believe contain Lionel's technology that was obtained illegally. We recently discovered the situation when we examined the computer records of our former chief engineer and confronted him. Faced with our findings, he admitted that, while under exclusive contract as a Lionel employee, he had also been working with another former Lionel employee, and K-Line, to develop for them a number of tech innovations, all of which were based on proprietary Lionel innovations and patents.



Please be assured that we did not take these actions lightly. Like many of you, we are weary of legal battles and the time and money it takes to wage them. At the same time, though, we are fully resolved to do whatever must be done to protect our valuable intellectual property that is essential for our survival as a company. I also want to assure you, our loyal customers, that none of these legal distractions will keep us from our primary responsibility of building and offering the highest quality and most affordable products we can possibly make. 2005 has been a great year for Lionel, with near record sales and, more important, predictable and steady delivery of promised products, for which we thank you.

now K-Line's

QUOTE: Lionel has filed a lawsuit in Bankruptcy Court against K-LINE making claims of misappropriation of trade secrets. K-LINE Electric Trains and our attorneys will be responding and defending against these claims in the appropriate venue. While we can not comment on the specifics, K-LINE is confident that it will be demonstrated that Lionel’s claims have no merit.

In the meantime, we thank you for your continued support.

Jeff Cohen
Kline Trains

This seems like Lionel might have the answers but time will tell and it will be the courts to give final answer.

Don't want a lot of bashing from both sides but thought this would be a good way to see both responses at once. it would be great to be able to add responses from both as it happens thou

[3railguy]

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