Intellectual property rights? haha!!!
How any patent can still hold for RR's is beyond me...... but they are such a huge company and have scouts scouring the web, doing the dirty work and reporting back making sure that no one is selling their stuff. Only payment they have to give the grunts is to allow THEM to sell their stuff under certain conditions. It is the perfect symbiotic relationship that is hard to beat. They sure seem to know exactly what they want and how to do it. Smart company. How they can prevent the 'knock-off's' that are truly different is beyond me.
Something tells me that the BimboSkunk Co. just doesn't have the backing to do all that.