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patents refer to the actual act of producing something specific in a very specific manner, not the application or distribution of the idea. those are further counts of patent law, beyond what they are claiming.
basicaly they would have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that there was no way that anyone in the world coudl have remote mounted a turbo on any vehicle before it became common knowledge that they were doing so. they would also have to prove that the application in question is in direct violation of EVERY term of the patent in question and not just a partial or evolved concept, since extensive rvision = new idea in the eyes of the law.
STS is screwed if they try to go forward against anyone in something like this. remote mount turbo and rear mounted turbos instead of mufflers have been put on cars since the late 70's in racing applications and it is too broad a stretch to believe that no one ever thought of applying this concept to teh stret until they came along.
any lawyer good enough to pull it off for them woudl cost them 3 years profit in the process. i can't see them being that stupid.
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