(Reposting this here in addition to the other general topic forum. If that violates rules, moderators, please advise and I will adjust).
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Folks. Been gone from this website for some time now since the Carrera left me some time back ( !) .... but thought to seek some help and advice here. Thanks for listening.
My good friend "John" has invested a lot of time and money to get a new wheel design accepted and off the gound for Mercedes-Benz models. Who knows, if successful, he may branch out into BMW and Porsche wheels.
Here's his question.... quoted directly from several emails sent to me. I offered to put this in front of the Pelican community if anyone has advice on how he can break-through the barriers he is finding to discuss his ideas further--->
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He says--->
I have been actively working on some inventions and have received four patents now with another one getting very close to completion. Being a car enthusiast you should find my car wheel patents of interest, look up InnovativeWheelDesigns. I have been trying to break through Mercedes-Benz gate keepers to get to a decision maker on these US and EU wheel patents but haven't been able to get to the right person yet. I have emailed the patent group in Germany and had the deisgns pasted on but no response back in three or four months. Two weekends ago I sent "Contact Us" responses to all 350+/- Mercedes-Benz US dealerships asking them to look at this website and if they liked the designs contact their German contacts, but in most cases my emailed information got cut off and I got sales responses back about new cars. If you have any ideas on how to get through 285,000 Mercedes-Benz employees with decision makers in Germany let me know. I have found the three main Mercedes-Benz wheel manufactures, trying to back door through them, but again haven't broke through to the right people yet.
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Later.... he also says this--->
My plan has been to patent the design using a "Plurality of Three Legged Equilateral Stars" (Mercedes-Benz Star) and then either get Mercedes-Benz (MB) or a third party wheel manufacture to do the detailed design, build prototypes, and test to meet EUWA - Association of European Wheel Manufacturers (TÜV SÜD), UN/ECE 124 standards.
The three manufactures I am told manufacture for MB are; BBS (German location) with this contact email address:
sales@bbs-usa.com, OZ ( German and Italian company) with contact email address:
info@oz-racing.de, and Borbet (German and Mexican company) with contact email address:
info@borbet-solingen.de. I emailed all of the above, about eight weeks ago but have not heard anything back from them yet. Can you think of an approach to get them to at least email back?
I've invested a lot of time and expense, PE Engineers, designers, and two patent attorney's to get both US and EU patents, so I'd like to be able to monetize these efforts. My plan if successful is you give one half of any proceeds to charities and use the other half for further patent work.
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So guys... sorry for the length of this.... but does anyone have a suggestion how my friend John can proceed? Many thanks.
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