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Owner of LearFan upset with FS plane?

Dear Mr Gustavo,
It has come to my attention that you are the owner of the Learfan Company.
We appreciate your coming forward with this information.
According to our records, you have failed to file tax returns for the period 1980 - 2009.
Please contact this office at your earliest convenience.

Will S Queeze
Internal Revenue Service
United States Government
Dallas Texas
 
EgoR64 said:
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Hi Bill,

You should touch bases with the gent that created it for X-Plane, Wonder if he got torched for it.

Cheers, and look forward to your Learfun for FS !!
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I would not be surprised if that guy with x-plane is the Gustavo guy! Most likely another developer who saw your project and realized he has one in production and is trying to scare you off so he can sell his, while your trying to give it away!

I would not worry to much, international Law is a tricky buisness, and trying to lay claim is even longer paper trail that ends up with the sue'r with more bills than the person getting sued. If the name is not taken use King-Pusher.
 
Wing_Z said:
Dear Mr Gustavo,
It has come to my attention that you are the owner of the Learfan Company.
We appreciate your coming forward with this information.
According to our records, you have failed to file tax returns for the period 1980 - 2009.
Please contact this office at your earliest convenience.

Will S Queeze
Internal Revenue Service
United States Government
Dallas Texas
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ROFLMAO :icon_lol:
 
Tried to make this post earlier, but for some reason it ended up saying a moderator had to review it. Anyway ....

I spent the required $1.00 plus 2.7% surcharge fee (boy, governments are creative) to search the records of registered business entities in Texas at the Secretary of State's website. I searched for Learfan Co. and got 19 results, none of which were actually Learfan Co. The results inluded one and two word names starting with bot LA and LE, and entities including Co., Corp., LLC, LLP, Corporation and so on. The search casts a pretty wide net, so I'm confident in saying that there is not a legally organized and registered business entity in Texas by the name Learfan Co. The only other possibility is that Gustavo is a sole proprietor operating under an assumed name which, so long as registered at the Dallas County Courthouse, would be legal. But he's not a corporation, that's for sure.

He has two possible claims, and it would help, Bill, if you simply quoted his email that you ultimately referred to in which he claimed the right to the aircraft name. Anyway, one possibility is a trademark claim, which is a claim that says he owns the name Lear Fan and has used it as a trademark and that your use of it infringes on his rights. The second kind of claim would be a copyright violation in which he says he owns the copyright to the visual image of the aircraft itself. That copyright claim would only be valid if he had purchased the original copyright from Lear Avia or a successor owner. The trademark claim would only be valid if he were selling Lear Fan aircraft or flight simulation depictions of a Lear Fan. Trademarks do not provide for exclusive use of the term, but only for exclusive use in connection with a specific product or service. An infringing use is one which would cause consumers of the trademarked good or service to have confusion over the source of that good or service. To use the example posted above, the ceiling fan, there would be no such confusion, hence no infringing use. That's because a consumer of ceiling fans wouldn't care who used the name in connection with a flight sim add-on, but wold get confused if two people tried to use the same name for different ceiling fans.

His address is one I drive past frequently. It is adjacent to a wide high tension power corridor paralleling a main thoroughfare, and it is not a place where a corporate executive would reside.

I look forward to seeing what his reply is.
 
The more I think of it, the more this sounds like an XP9 dev.

I am curious if that guy that made the XP9 LearFan is Gustavo. If it is, Im going to Austin on it.

Devs are neighbors in the sim world. At least in FS they are.
 
The more I think of it, the more this sounds like an XP9 dev.

I am curious if that guy that made the XP9 LearFan is Gustavo. If it is, Im going to Austin on it.

Devs are neighbors in the sim world. At least in FS they are.
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If it turns out this way, If I were you, my next payware FSX release would be an updated, stunningly accurate and beautiful model of the Lear Fan 2100...

Who cares about the harassment from this guy then, we would all buy it and enjoy it and we'd all have a little fun with him. :icon_lol:
 
piperarcherpilot said:
If it turns out this way, If I were you, my next payware FSX release would be an updated, stunningly accurate and beautiful model of the Lear Fan 2100...

Who cares about the harassment from this guy then, we would all buy it and enjoy it and we'd all have a little fun with him. :icon_lol:
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Youre reading my mind, lol...
 
CBris said:
Careful Guys...

Google the name and be aware that at least one Gustavo Cuello is a priest and linked with unsavoury acts against minors. Others of the same name are also around...
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Unfortunately, so is a prominent member of the MSFS development community.
:pop4:
 
Shylock said:
Dont forget my name is Shylock for a reason. :jump: Just saying....
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