This design was around and used way before Trek did! I know they all look close but the geometry is different making the ride feel good for each bikes intended purpose! This design is super simple yet very complicated all at the same time! It gives the rear wheel a nice axel path and allows for a good soft stroke with little peddle feedback! Alot of bikes use it but its a good design making a light strong frame! RidEOn!

 Will everyone please shut up about suspension comparisons? There's a reason why they all look the same - we've reached the point where the most efficient designs have been found, now it's all about tweaking the geometry. Here's a list of bikes which use some variation of this design: Cove Hooker, Cove Hustler XC, Trek Top Fuel, Trek Fuel EX, Trek Remedy, Trek Scratch Air, Trek Scratch, Trek Session, Specialized Pitch, One Ghost Wakazashi, Rotwild X2, Ghost RT, Ghost AMR, Banshee Wildcard, Devinci Dexter, Devinci Dixon, Jamis Dakar 650, Jamis Dakar XCT, Kona 2+2, Kona Tanuki, Kona Abra, Kona Hei-Hei, Kona Coilair, Kona Stinky, Kona Operator, Kona Bass, Mongoose Salvo, Morewood Sukuma, Norco Range, Norco Fluid, Norco Faze, Norco Shinobi, Norco Vixa, Norco Phena, Rocky Mountain Altitude, Rocky Mountain Slayer, Rocky Mountain Altitude 29er, Ellsworth Truth, Ellsworth Epiphany, Ellsworth Evolve, Ellsworth Evolution, Ellsworth Moment, Ellsworth Momentum, Ellsworth Dare, Ellsworth Witness, Ellsworth Glimpse, Nicolai Lambda, and on and on. This is not including other bikes that are the exact same with different shock placements, it is just bikes with the exact same look. Hopefully it communicates my point, that there is an absurd amount of bikes out there that "look like" each other.

Seriously dude, every single full suspension bike made by Kona and Ellsworth EVER has run this basic design. If anything you should be preaching that everyone is stealing from them. Or alternatively, you could just use my post and go find everyone with a bike in the list and tell them that they're copying you, and that would be missing my point.