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**Bob Harrington** · January 21st 08, 10:22 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation

wrote in
ng.com:

As for airframe manufacturers' efforts to extract license fees from
scale model aircraft manufacturers for use of the company name, I
think that's OUTRAGEOUS, especially when one realizes that in most
cases Uncle Sam paid for the designs! But I'll wager the drive for
that comes from greedy executives, not inhouse counsel.

I recall reading some years ago of a lawsuit that named Boeing as a
defendant when a child swallowed a small plastic part out a scale model of a
Boeing aircraft. Boeing's name was on the box, therefore they were guilty
(read: had deep pockets)

I haven't been to a hobby store in a long time to check, but I also recall
reading that the above suit was the reason Boeing won't allow it's name on
model boxes any more.

Bob ^,,^