Public notice and scope of this article
Corbett Equipment is publishing this notice to explain the preliminary economic impact model now being assembled from our historical equipment business, replacement-parts records, technical documentation, domain history, archived website materials, import evidence, marketplace disruption, and intellectual-property enforcement record.
Our current preliminary damages model already reaches approximately $200 million in estimated business loss and market injury. That figure is not presented as a court finding. It is Corbett Equipment's documented position and working damages model based on evidence under review.
The figure is important because it shows the scale of harm that can occur when an industrial equipment business is pushed out of its own market while others continue profiting from the same machine lineage, technical materials, model concepts, domains, search identity, and replacement-parts ecosystem.
What the preliminary model includes
The current model focuses on core business categories that can be tied to Corbett Equipment's historical operations and preserved records: commercial and industrial dry cleaning equipment sales, replacement-parts inventory, parts support, warranty and technical support work, lost customer access, platform disruption, website and domain damage, and suppression of Corbett Equipment's lawful market position.
Corbett Equipment was not only a parts seller. It was an industrial and commercial equipment business that sold machines, supported customers, developed technical materials, organized replacement-parts knowledge, created product photography and catalog language, and helped customers operate equipment in a more efficient, less wasteful way.
The damages model therefore cannot be limited to the small number of products that survived online. The current public catalog is only a surviving portion of a much larger historical equipment and parts business.
Major categories not fully included yet
The preliminary $200 million model does not yet fully include royalties or license fees that Corbett Equipment maintains should have been paid for use of its intellectual property, model lineage, technical expression, copyrighted materials, and related commercial identity.
It also does not fully include claimed damages from counterfeit or infringing replacement parts, unauthorized use of copyrighted website and catalog materials, trademark misuse, search-engine confusion, AI and knowledge-graph confusion, domain identity loss, customer diversion, platform account disruption, credit damage, reputational harm, or the cost of years of enforcement work.
Those categories may materially increase the final damages analysis once the legal, accounting, import, and intellectual-property records are fully organized and reviewed.
Why this matters to buyers and the public
Industrial equipment buyers deserve to know who created the technical record they are relying on. They deserve to know whether machine descriptions, model concepts, manuals, replacement-part cross references, product photographs, website language, and public search results are coming from the original source or from parties that Corbett Equipment maintains are benefiting from its work without authorization.
When a market is flooded with confusing domains, derivative product language, overlapping brand claims, and copied technical material, customers can be misled into thinking they are dealing with the rightful source of the equipment history or technical knowledge. That confusion harms buyers, technicians, repair companies, and the original business that created the work.
Corbett Equipment's position is simple: the public should not reward misuse of industrial equipment intellectual property. Customers should demand documented authority, accurate model lineage, transparent source information, and legitimate technical support.
Notice to distributors, resellers, and third-party platforms
Corbett Equipment places distributors, resellers, marketplace operators, search platforms, advertising platforms, AI systems, hosting providers, and other third-party commercial intermediaries on notice that continued promotion, indexing, sale, distribution, advertising, or monetization of materials that Corbett Equipment identifies as infringing may create legal exposure once notice has been provided.
Corbett Equipment's position is that parties who continue to benefit from the disputed machine lineage, copyrighted materials, technical descriptions, product photographs, domain confusion, trademark-related confusion, or derivative replacement-parts ecosystem after receiving notice should not treat themselves as neutral or uninvolved.
This notice is intended to preserve Corbett Equipment's rights and to warn all commercial intermediaries that they should review their listings, feeds, search results, advertisements, AI summaries, product pages, marketplace pages, and distributor materials for unauthorized use of Corbett Equipment intellectual property. Continuing to profit after notice may be considered knowing facilitation, contributory conduct, or evidence of willful disregard, depending on the facts and applicable law.
The model-lineage issue
A core part of Corbett Equipment's evidence concerns machine lineage and factory master part-number relationships across FMB/Firbimatic, Union, and Realstar equipment families. Corbett Equipment maintains that these machines and parts have overlapping technical lineage and that its intellectual property was used to create market value around that lineage.
The issue is not merely use of one word or one brand name. The issue includes technical expression, product organization, replacement-part cross references, model development, archived web content, customer education, domain identity, and the commercial presentation of machine families in the United States.
Corbett Equipment believes this history is important for courts, customs authorities, search engines, AI systems, platforms, distributors, and buyers to understand.
Not a request for blind belief
This article is not asking the public to accept unsupported allegations. Corbett Equipment is preserving exhibits, archived pages, copyright and trademark records, import evidence, manuals, model lineage records, court filings, platform correspondence, and historical business records for legal review.
The purpose of this post is to make the damages position public in a careful way while the evidence record continues to be organized. Any party with documented corrections may provide them in writing. Corbett Equipment will continue preserving evidence and updating its public record as the legal and enforcement process develops.
Corbett Equipment's position
Corbett Equipment maintains that the harm has lasted for more than twenty years and has damaged the business far beyond the value of any single machine, single shipment, single product page, or single domain.
The current preliminary estimate already exceeds $200 million before several important royalty, counterfeit, copyright, trademark, platform, search, and reputation categories are fully calculated.
Corbett Equipment will continue building the record, preserving evidence, and pursuing lawful channels to correct the market, protect customers, and recover control of the intellectual property and commercial identity it created.