Re: PR: Brinks Home Security files Civil Suit against Jim Rojas & www.tech-man.com

["Roland" <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>a serious multi million dollar anti trust case.

I wonder how long the Brinks attorneys would have a client if there efforts
to give Jim a hard time actually cost Brinks some real cash and Brinks
pulled back a stump?

"Jim Rojas" <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:462ce6f6$0$9907$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi Jim,
>
> In regards to the user manuals : In the domain of copyrights, abandonment
> is recognized as the explicit release of material by a copyright holder
> into the public domain. Publishing it on the internet for however short
> period of time can be considered such a release into the public domain.
> Once it is in the public domain you cannot retract it.
>
> A number of websites offer the Brinks user manuals online.
>
> <http://www.alarmsbc.com/manuals.htm>Trade secrets - anyone may reverse
> engineer a product and thus discover (and copy and publish) all of its
> secrets, to the extent they are not protected by other laws
>
> Found this interesting quote on:
> http://www.alarmsbc.com/NEW1/wwwboard/messages/986.html
>
> "BTW, the Brinks programmer is just an Arrowhead keypad that plugs into a
> header on the board - there's nothing really complicated about it. But,
> without the manual to go with it, it does you no good anyway. With the
> programmer and manual, the system is wide open to the installer - I've
> reprogrammed many Brinks 2000's and am currently monitoring several of
> them. For those of you guys out there (by that, I mean installers) that
> run across Brinks systems and just replace them, it may be worth looking
> into getting a programmer and manual (I had to get mine from a Brinks
> dealer.) If anyone's interested, I may be able to get my hands on 1 or 2
> more."
>
>
> Personally I believe the Brinks system looks remarkebly like a caddx
> keypad. The panic buttons are almost identical to a NX series keypad and
> the rest of the layout identical to a DL series keypad.
>
> Arrowhead (USA) = Sentrol = Caddx = Moose = DAS = Scantronic (all GE
> owned)
>
> Chubb used the Caddx DL series here in NZ exclusively but found that
> consumer legislation required them to disclose codes and that consumers
> had the right to demand an installer manual since they owned the alarm and
> an alarm is effectively useless without the ability to program it. The
> DL-100 was branded as the Chubb 1000 and DAS DL-100 in the manuals.The
> DL-300 as the Chubb 3000. (Probably due to a bit of Subtle pressure by the
> Ministry of Commerce they have abandoned "exclusive systems".)
>
> The units were  programmed using a  "smart  programmer". I have included a
> picture of the programmer that I own for the Chubb 3000 panel with
> comparison photos of the NX & brinks keypads. ( Brinks.jpg)
>
> Of course the Brinks system is just a hybrid of other GE products and may
> even involve components sold elsewhere in the world under a different
> brand name. The system provides no specifically unique features that are
> not already available on other systems by other manufacturers. It is
> Patented for the ability to monopolize on the product. This is a
> deliberate breach of the anti trust laws and is considered Patent fraud.
>
> Hence:           WALKER, INC. v. FOOD MACHINERY, 382  U.S. 172 (1965)
>
> ADT through one of its Authorised dealers (Protector systems) sold the ITI
> Simons panel in NZ as a "PROTECTOR ELITE". They now are replacing consumer
> owned installed locked out panels at their cost. (To avoid breaching the
> NZ Fair trading Act).
>
> Hope this helps and good luck with your case.  You may want to consider
> joining up with Brinks system owners and turning it into a serious multi
> million dollar anti trust case.
>