Rick is a GREAT man ... one of the "Salt of the Earth" kinda fellas ... but ... Unfortunately he may have "bitten off more than he could chew" when he took over the Progressive Rhino project :'-(
As many of you know Progressive Machines funded the development/production of the Rhino from Poland back in Circa 2002 ... When Spiderman sold Progressive to Workhorse in June of 2005 it was decided to "pull-the-plug" on the Rhino project by The Bergmann Group (Workhorse Parent Company)
The mindset of The Bergman Group is that they only want to drill their own holes, bend their own metal, skin their own wire, etc. Bergmann is a "do it in house" kinda place -and- since the majority of the Rhino was MFG in Poland it simply didn't fit the Bergman "business model"
So ... in steps Rick Fuqua from RPM (Real Performance Machinery) to continue selling the Rhino ... after awhile it was decided to rebrand the Rhino as the RPM Revolution
To Rick Fuqua's credit, over the last several years the RPM company has done a Good Job of keeping the Progressive Rhino project held in a favorable light within our industry under his RPM - Revolution brand of the machine -but- for confidential reasons that "certainly DO NOT need to be discussed on a Public Forum" the Gents in Poland have decided to do a rebrand as Mustang Printers
Spiderman wanted to take a minute -and- Publicly say "Kudos to Rick Fuqua" for keeping the Baby Rhino alive over the years :-))
Note: the Mustang Printers WILL NOT have any of the Legal issues with regard to M&R Patents as the RPM Revolution owners faced ... that being said ... Spiderman believes that financial strain from M&R's Legal TEAM certainly contributed to this unfortunate situation we ALL are witnessing with Rick Fuqua and the RPM company :'-(
Here is some banter from Peter Walsh from NaZdar :-@
This is a little more info on the topic as asked of Spiderman from Peter Walsh of NaZdar (M&R's Largest Distributor)
Quote from: PWalsh
Quote:
Robert: I do have a question for you on this subject, that given your long standing industry experience, and your close relationship to the parties involved I'd expect you to know the answer to. Just to be clear my question is not flaming, it has nothing to do with M&R, and it has nothing to do with your feud with Rich Hoffman.
My question has everything to do with possible disputes between the common manufacturer of the RPM presses represented by Rick Fuqua, and the soon to be released Mustang Printers that are Represented Serviced by Spider Machines through your Screen Print Gear organization.
So here's the question; "Is it possible that the current RPM press is utilizing certain design features in it's operating system software that the US courts might consider the Intellectual Property of Real Performance Machinery LLC., that could factor into any legal action that Rick Fuqua would launch?"
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Peter :-)
I always love the way you mislead the reader in your posts <--- Laughable on many levels ... however ... Spiderman will answer the specific Question about "Intellectual Property of Real Performance Machinery LLC."
Back in Circa 2002 even Progressive had ZERO intellectual property rights to the actual design of the Rhino (which ironically NaZdar was a dealer of said Rhino product line back in the day) ... so ... lets evaluate this situation a little further ... since the intellectual property did not / does not belong to RPM ... just because Rick Fuqua was able to negotiate RPM's "clean-bill-of-health" in regard to getting the M&R Legal threat off the back of the RPM Revolution customers ... does NOT magically give RPM some right to ANY of the actual IP (intellectual property)
Note: just because RPM was able to negotiate -and- facilitate the payment of the M&R extortion $$$ does NOT mean that RPM owns ANY of the IP (intellectual property) ... Right?
SPIN ... SPIN ... SPIN
Read more:
http://www.screenprintersopen.com/pm...#ixzz1VC6S0cZ2
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