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This is the cover of my Dr. Rebuild Catalog Volume 19 which was published May 20, 1991 as a paper catalog. We already used in one court case against Zip. It still has the Yellow Plaintiff's Exhibit tag on the cover from its use in January 1998. |
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Inside our catalog volume 19 on page 22 and 23 we had a series of nine unique illustrations to advertise these related items. In the upper right hand corner of page 23 is the illustration that has been enlarged below. |
| Below is a side by side comparison of that enlarged illustration from page 23 in 1991 and the copy that Zip has stolen from me and is now using on the internet in 2002 to make money. This p---- is using my advertising to market his bogus inferior trash. | |
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Where do you think ZIP will claim they got the above picture from? GM? Nope they did not produce it. It only appeared in print in one place 11 years ago - my catalog. |
| When I see these thieving scum doing this again, it reminds me of those deer ticks that get on my dogs. Simply blood suckers, but these are human parasites. | |
I am sick and tired of these thieves. There is simply no polite way of
stating this otherwise. For the last 10 years I have had this thief pilfering
my illustrations, instruction sheets, product descriptions, and product
lines. They are worse than a dam deer tick. At least you can kill a deer
tick. They have cost me 100 thousand in legal fees to get this tick off
my back and they keep coming back. It began years ago with Wittek hose clamp kit, when Tim Pope ordered every kit from us at wholesale and then copied the applications. You have got to understand that Tim Pope was their purchase order manager. He did not know anything about Corvettes, he did not own a Corvette and I'll bet he still does not. The closest he came, was owning an old Chevy - I think a 55-57 BelAir. Everything he learned about Corvettes was second hand. Then he did the same with the hundred of other kits I developed for the market place. The fact is, anybody can copy the actual part - that is usually legal. But, when you start coping our advertising copy, our illustrations, our instructions or our logos - that is not legal. These thieving scum want me to provide them with free advertising after they copy the idea. The person(s) at Zip who creates their catalogs has been copying my illustrations for years. They even got their illustrator to make some outlandish statements under oath. They actually stated under oath that they created all 6 of their headlamp and wiper door vacuum hose illustrations - but had never ever, ever looked under the hood of a Corvette. David Walker said he got on a ladder, hung over the open hood of a Corvette and took a photograph. Then their illustrator proceeded to create 6 different illustration for the various 1968 to 1982 models. He could not duplicate that feat if his job or life depended upon it. Truthfully, they duplicated at least 7 critical errors exactly, that I had provided to them and that renders each of the headlamp system inoperative for every 1968 to 1982 model. They did not know that. And for years they were simply photocopying the same incorrect illustrations, over and over again. It is a FACT: if you hooked up the hoses according to that illustrations - every year from 1968 to 1982 simply would not work. They may have changed them today, however they are still repeated throughout other paper print catalogs and even all over the internet now. The same faulty drawings have appeared not only in Zips catalogs. Then they were copied into other catalogs produced by Corvette Central, Mid America, Ecklers. They now even appear in several places on the net. This has created tremendous confusion. Literally for years, we have had to deal with those possessing these faulty instructions. I do not provide any technical support to their customers. And neither could they, because they did not even know the problems. Now after picking this parasite David Walker off my back over and over again, they are again using another illustration I created 11 years ago - in 1991. They were printed back then in my paper catalog Volume 19 on page 23. These were also printed on the product instruction sheets we have included with this item for the last eleven years. Where do you think Zips "artist" will state he got that illustration? From any GM assembly manual - Nope they are not even close. From any GM manual - Nope, not there either. I guess he drew it out of thin air and it just happened to look the same. Maybe they got their old ladder out and hung over the top of the radiator to a Corvette. I would love to see that. Look at picture in the upper right hand corner of my 11-year-old catalog and Zips Internet picture stolen from me. This scumbag is using my illustration to market their crap. Not only has this thief stolen my idea and my product design, now he has even stolen my illustration to market it. Talk about a free loading parasite. Where do you think Zip will claim they got this illustration? What are his shysters going to say now - Zip had it on his web site prior to 1991 - before his internet site opened, but nobody else saw it? I cannot wait to see their new web site section called Online Instructions. That should be a real eye opener of their concept of originality. Jeez, did you ever wonder why Zip and David Walker couldn't prevent me from calling them THIEVES and FREE LOADERS or PARASITES? It is real simple, if I tell the truth - there is now manner in which they can prevent it from being said or printed. And I don't have to fib or stretch the truth. The facts and evidence are real enough. | |
Anthony P. Coll Voice (408) 349-5080 Fax: (408) 349-7821 Mr. Coll: http://store.yahoo.com/corvetterestoration/c1-to-c3-items-cooling-system.html ---shroud-seals-kits--car-sets-.html The above addresses contain an illustration that was drawn by me personally in 1991. They were literally scanned or photocopied from a Dr. Rebuild Catalog. They are from our Volume 19 first published in May 1991 as a paper catalog. We have also printed these pictures on large labels that we include as instruction sheets with these products when they are marketed. I have my original 1991 illustration shown in a jpg on my web site under the title "I caught ZIP STEALING AGAIN" because that is exactly what has occurred - again. www.docrebuild.com/dr-r-web/zip-parasite.html Please remove my property from this public domain use. This is not an isolated incident with this company Zip and their principals David Walker and John Wayne Walker. If you knew these individuals as well as I do, you would also know that they have been repeatedly been found to use others property with little regard to copyright or trademark laws. The U.S. Postal Service prohibited them from using Post Office trademark. I brought them to U.S. Federal Court in New Haven CT to prevent them from copying my illustration, instruction sheets and other advertising sales aids. Circa 1995 in a deposition under oath, David Walker admitted that he had file folders in his office with instruction sheets, diagrams, labels, routing diagrams, exploded views that were all produced by Dr. Rebuild. He took out the original, and then reprinted whatever quantity he wanted, whenever he wanted more - with his name. When one of my lawyers asked what ever happened to all those folders with the Dr. Rebuild pictures - he said he was not sure - they were misplaced or perhaps even discarded. He could not remember, but they no longer existed circa 1995. Apparently not so, unless he can divine magic with a forked tongue also. Apparently not even Zip, ever throws away a Dr. Rebuild catalog, and that one was from 1991. But that is not really a fresh revelation to me at all. These pictures first appeared only in my paper catalogs and nowhere prior to my creation in 1991. They cannot fudge anything earlier. However I would not be surprised if they lied again. Some things never change. Either you a brought up with integrity or you are a liar and thief all your life. I loathe dishonesty. It particularly annoys me when I have to repeatedly police Zip from literally stealing my advertising sales material with a photocopier. They are created by Dr. Rebuild to market Dr. Rebuild products. Others did not share the expenses associated with their production. I do provide them free to others to sell their own shoddy imitations and thus denigrate the value of my products using my own advertising sales aids in a deception. Much market place confusion has been produced by these deceptions, and even those in this august body have even commented on their confusion with regard to the form, fit, function and accuracy of the product. There are not the headlamp and wiper door vacuum hose illustrations that Zip used without my authorization previously, and were subject to US Federal Court trial before a jury that was finally adjudicated in 1998 with my being reimbursed $70,000 by Zip for part of my expenses. Allow me to add it cost me $100,000 above that to pursue their unauthorized use my property. But money is not and never has been my incentive. However, I certainly do preference being able to tell the truth and refer David Walker and John Wayne Walker as THIEVES and PARASITES and not misuse or pervert the meaning of those terms. Their lawyers offered a larger settlement if those terms were not disclosed. Do you wonder why? Geoffrey Coenen Voice (203) 366-1332 Fax: (203) 576-0715 Cc William Taylor, esq. From Webster's for the scholars present: THIEF: a person who steals another's property, especially secretly | |
