SP -v- AKA

[Bolter]

Sorry Paul, I didn't see it had been posted before. My bad.

It sucks that a company wants to be so greedy. I mean every company wants to be the best in the field that they are in, but by making huge divides like this in the paintball community is uncalled for, and for me in some ways a set back. The frikkin guys that made the splat guns for marking animals or trees in the first place should take SP to court fo making paintball guns like they are the first to do so.
Angry Bolter

 

[soopaman luva]

FCUK smartprats oops i mean smartparts ,i want to own a viking 1 day

 

[Bolle]

SP sucks! I for one will never buy a sp product NEVER. Nice way of saying Merry christmas, what a bunch of a-holes.

 

[Twizz ECI]

Team Ecstasy

just to say we are the smart parts factory team, and i hope people are not against us, as this is about smart parts in the U.S.A AND NOT SMART PARTS EUROPE, so please don't give my team a hard time as its nothing to do with us!!

thanks, and a happy christmas to you all

 

[ices]

Actually Sp will have more ground than AKA, due to their so-called patent.

Will sp eat up all the small fry and go after the big guys?

 

[ices]

Bah Extasy...bah!!!

 

[The New Paddy]

All this is just making bad business for smartparts, why do they do it for ?


Paddy

 

[L J]

money...


by getting these patents it either forces the other companys to invent a new way of firing, or they pay royalties, which gives SP money every time a marker is sold

 

[Rabies]

It is possible that this particular press release actually heralds good news for paintball. Smart Parts' current racket is old news, but what has been lacking so far is a company with the resources or the willing to actually stand up the the claims and get the suit thrown out, and hopefully the patent with it.

It has been demonstrated by many people that there is too much prior art to this patent for it to have any serious validity, but it is very expensive to fight patent suits and it has been beyond the resources of smaller companies to try (in fact, acting as one company in isolation, it may actually work out cheaper to comply and sign up to SP's terms than to fight a suit and win it.)

AKA, by indicating they will not just roll over, are acting bravely, and for the good of paintball as a whole, even though it will most likely cost them a shedload in lawyer's fees. Unfortunately, their life will be made difficult by the fact that patent has already been enforced in other cases (although I'm not sure how important that is if they were out-of-court settlements.) Either way, all it takes is one company with a bit of guts and a load of cash to prove that the patent in question should never have been granted. Is AKA our knight in shining armour?

 

[Dannefaerd]

Team Ecstasy

Originally posted by Twizz 69
just to say we are the smart parts factory team, and i hope people are not against us, as this is about smart parts in the U.S.A AND NOT SMART PARTS EUROPE, so please don't give my team a hard time as its nothing to do with us!!

thanks, and a happy christmas to you all

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