SPL Transpressor plagiarism

[Timo]

Here's a post I wrote in the Sound On Sound forums in early 2008:

http://www.soundonsound.com/forum/sh...59&Main=597442

Originally Posted by Timo (Make Your Dream Product From 2 Products...) thread

A Transpressor™.

Envelope follower (transient designer) and compressor, in one unit. Envelope follower can be switchable post/pre compressor.

If a good balance was struck for each of the two aspects, for both technical and creative uses it would be a great boon to have them available in one unit and working together, for countless reasons. A dynamics powerhouse.

Now see this from SPL:

http://www.spl.info/

Identical feature set (envelope follower switchable post/pre compressor all in one unit), heck even the same name.

Any lawyers amongst us?