-You are correct. The claims made were that I did a good portion of the engineering work on the prototyping of the SABR (before it was even called SABR). The overall "design" was ultimately a contribution from several individuals. I never claimed that I solely designed any product for LWRC and never will. However, I did invent a portion of the design that is now incorporated into all LWRCI rifles, of which LWRCI fraudulently patented behind my back and without my knowledge several years after the fact. And that is the subject of an IP correction of inventorship lawsuit being filed in SA Federal Court on Monday.
-In regards to your question about why am I representing myself, there are two reasons: 1) It would be a disservice to my customer-base if I was spending their money on worthless lawyers (no offense). 2) Unlike the personnel of LWRCI, I am man enough to fight my own battles, and man enough to get my ass whooped if warranted. But as you can deduce from the filings, it matters not how much money LWRCI spends on its legal army. I have and will continue destroying their pathetic defenses and obstructions. And at the end of each day I still get rifles out the door.
Truth be told, here are the basic facts that are generally unknown to the public... (I have reworded this slightly from what Brian had previously posted on a blog):
-I did provide engineering work on the REPR and that work was and is still being used by LWRCI. I never made any real issue of it until my integrity was attacked by the very Vice President of LWRCI who hired me to do the engineering work in the first place. I can see this lawsuit being an issue in the sale of the LWRCI. If F&D is entitled to intellectual properties of LWRCI and the fact that there may be substantial liability due to their defamatory remarks, then you would think Colt would want to know about this and how to handle it before the sale is finalized. Surely Colt has done their due diligence on the matter? It was never my intention to go after LWRCI on the defamation or IP issues until after another VP of LWRCI threatened me for defamation and for infringement of a patent of which I was the inventor. It gets no bolder than that. At this point, I was left with little choice but to press F&D's case and force LWRCI to clean up any damage they may have caused myself and F&D with their unfounded threats and defamatory statements. F&D has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that we can design, engineer, produce, and deliver a world class AR. We (Brian and I) are certainly not riding LWRCI's coattails. If anything, LWRCI is riding ours from prior-performed engineering work. We would rather be focused on what we do best, but when preemptively threatened by a much larger competitor, have no problem defending our name, reputation, and abilities.
These are the facts, and this is why you will hear little to nothing about this case out of LWRCI and its reps, and why we are comfortable talking about it publically, regardless of pending litigation. I think it is a huge inaccuracy to classify the F&D lawsuit with the likes of SEI or TRN. Those are bully lawsuits (regardless as to whether or not they have merit). I am fighting the bully in this one. With that said, it was never my intention to make Frank of snipershide feel as if I was trying to target his site as well. I did want information on one of his members and that I would be subpoenaing it if not provided, and that is when we fell out. Since then I have apologized to him and left open the door for reconciliation when/if he is willing to have us back. I have also made it a point that, if we are allowed back, neither Brian nor I will respond to or inflame the trolling that had taken place previously (even though we did have some fun times with it).
