“Maybe any such protection only last for X number of years, like a patent.”
After such time, I can steal your farm, your factory, your company?
You’re conflating real property with intellectual property. The same rules don’t, and logically can’t, apply to both.
I don’t advocate someone ‘lifting’ the business model from another business, no. I’m just trying to understand why this Charbuck’s company got away with it, and other imitators don’t without getting threats by a company lawyer.
Might be another case of Cronyism. You know, like the Canadian company that (mis)designed the ObamaCare website, which just so happens to be owned by one of Michelle’s old school chums. What a coincidence!