Smart Parts Patents

[Burb]

So with the money they make, can we expect to see 'real' cutting edge paintball products, cheaper markers or just a bit more bling on there necks?

 

[Red_Merkin]

Col, I think the amount is more like 75 bucks from what I am hearing

how foolish!
They're going to end up with a lot of nothing, instead of a big pile of something by the looks of it.

 

[dnafwtbtitft]

Originally posted by Burb
So with the money they make, can we expect to see 'real' cutting edge paintball products

You would need a company that innovates to get that. Not just a company that reworks something some else came out with first, patents it, and then holds it against the companies that came up with the ideas first...

I'm waiting to see when they come out with their first electronic cocker grip frame... after all they have a patent on the design...

Originally posted by Burb
cheaper markers

Excuse me while I laugh so hard my sides split. Do you really expect that to happen from a company that purposely goes out of their way to charge people more money?

Example. The impulse was made with another new thread type when they designed it. So that you couldn't use any other barrels on it... oh but you could! The first impulses relased were actually shocker threads with shorter leads, so you could just cut down an old shocker barrel to fit... but then what happens? this becomes public knowledge so they change the threads entirely...

Not as if they sell barrels or anything is it?

Originally posted by Burb
bling

Bling bling baby, that's what it's all about. Greed.

 

[duffistuta]

Yep, lest we forget, the EBlade, WorrBlade and RaceFrame are in the firing line too.

 

[joe bob]

Why didnt everyone patent just their own e grip, their all a little different if I am mistaken?

 

[acsik]

If I patent an electro grip and the description is vague enough to be applicable for you its "Prior Act", wich prevents your patent being granted as I was the first one.


Its for protecting the original inventor from zillions of copycats.


Cya

 

[manike]

Smart Parts and National Paintball Supply reach patent license
>agreement.
>
>
>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>August 22, 2003
>
>Smart Parts Website:
>www.smartparts.com
>
>National Paintball Supply Website:
>www.nationalpaintball.com
>
>
>National Paintball Supply and Smart Parts Sign Patent License Agreement
>August 22, 2003
>
>Smart Parts, Inc. and National Paintball Supply, Inc. today announced
>the signing of a Patent License Agreement giving National Paintball
>Supply
>rights to make, sell, offer for sale, and distribute products
>covered by
>Smart Parts¹ electronic paintball gun patents.
>
>Smart Parts owns several issued patents and pending patent applications
>related to the use of electronics in the control and operation of
>paintball
>guns. These include, for instance, U.S. Patent Nos. 5,881,707;
>5,967,133;
>6,035,843; and 6,474,326 B1.

 

[BaddahBoom]

^^^^
How did his come about

i was hoping for a united we stand kind of thing
but apparently that's not to be

So

Was NPS just scared of high lawyer fees ??
or
did SP patent's have some hold over their products ?
or
did NPS fall for their intimadation techniques?
or
did SP just have a rock solid case period ?


it kinda smells like the beginning of the end to PB as we know it

 

[TJ 2]

>did SP just have a rock solid case period ?


Whatever your views on the morality of their case, or the ethics behind it, or the strange ways in which tha legal system can work, tha fact is that, at least when it comes to the Timmy, NPS appears to feel that the case is rock solid. Someone like Gino doesn't give up or back down unless he knows he ain't gonna win.

I think 2 companies have a chance of beating this, none of tha others do.

 

[BaddahBoom]

>>I think 2 companies have a chance of beating this, none of tha others do.<<

but if there is only/just one company who can win it
isn't the whole SP patent thing nonvalid then ??


Still trying to grasp the mysterious US legal ways