Originally posted by Ant Jones
Fact is, there were vague hints about patents at the time of going to press (several weeks ago) but nothing concrete enough to comment on, and people aren't too forthcoming with info when patents and such are involved until they have taken advice from their lawyers. Which is what the Gardners are doing right now, as a lot of what has been thrown around on here and elsewhere is apparently completely untrue. I tried to find out from them last night as to what is really going on with patents, but all they would say was that it's nothing like people are making out and they will send me all the info as soon as they have details in writing from their lawyers. That's why we've said nothing until now. There was nothing we could say that wasn't simply more conjecture.
And as leaving stuff out so as not to offend advertisers...more to the point would be that we prefer not to print false information due to not knowing all the facts. That would have made us look pretty stupid.
We've been promised that we will be the first to know what the patents really mean, which means you lot will be too. It should all come to light some time in the coming week.
Ant
I honestly believe that PGI will be the best people to look into this and get information from all sides and sources.
They are and have been impartial, and they have also been outspoken on difficult issues. I commend that and look forward to seeing what they find out and how they look into this. It's one of the reasons I am posting this stuff on this board.
I can't wait to find out how what SP says stacks up against the what the other major electronic gun manufacturers say...
I'm hoping PGI as well as talking to SP talk to ICD, AKA, WDP, AGD, WGP, BL, NPS and get the view from everyone (leave Mike out of it as he just wants to build mechanical pumps
). It will be very interesting then to see how many 'rumours' can be confirmed or denied. It will also be interesting to see how the things SP have 'stated' tie in with the other companies contact/dealings with SP.
I am concerned that many when speaking to a publication may have no choice but to clam up on some of the issues (or will have been told to by their lawyers), but we shall see shan't we?
As for me 'sexing' things up? I've actually had to be careful about what I am saying, and I've tried to stick to things I know to be true when I make statements and point out where things are just rumours or I don't know if they are true, by saying how I came by the information.
I know a lot of this is hard to believe, I find it hard to believe myself, but I have very valid and trustworthy sources. Yes it has only recently just blown up, but I've been following it on and off for years.
