Fine Figure of a Man
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You can, with very little chance of getting anything except more legal fees.
Steyr is Suing SIG Over P320
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modifiedbrowning
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Didn't the Tokarev have a removable trigger group back in the 30's?
Would you care to provide some legal analysis for that conclusion? I really get a kick out of posts like that. Most people in this thread don't have the expertise to speak intelligently on the issue and any who do don't have the facts to analyze the claim.
Yes. If "removable firing mechanism" is as simple as the patent in question, I fail to see how it would have gone past prior art. However, is this not a EU patent, not US? Perhaps it is a less rigorous process?
Lj1941
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My M-57 had a removable trigger group. I remember it falling out the first time I field stripped it.It was probably copied from the Tokarev. I am not sure if the communists sued each other for infringement or not. I doubt if anything came of that. It was what the communists did.Remember Joe Stalin copying our B 29 bombers during WW2 after they landed there. It was not a good thing given the Soviets were supposed to be our allies.
What the purpose of this i$Sue now?
Fine Figure of a Man
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Steyr is alleging theft in the form of patent infringement so the core of the issue would be $.
The same Steyr that violated the US Blockade of Iraq in 1991 and sold Saddam sniper systems used on our troops as well as the Taliban in Afghanistan...?
Maybe it's just sour grapes (as others have stated) because they lost the military contract. And maybe for the above stated reason.
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Maybe it's just sour grapes (as others have stated) because they lost the military contract. And maybe for the above stated reason.
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JohnBiltz
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The devil is always in the details. I suspect it is not so much about the removable fire group as how it is done.
If you don't defend your patents, then you no longer have one. Why should a giant like Sig be allowed to step all over a little company if they stole the idea?
If you don't defend your patents, then you no longer have one. Why should a giant like Sig be allowed to step all over a little company if they stole the idea?
george burns
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It's funny to read some of the patents on the patent websites. Just about anything that will ever be invented has been patented in advance to some degree. I remember about 10 years ago we were looking to patent something and there were hundreds of similar patents applied for that were so vague that I have no clue how they could even be enforced. People actuall try to patent things that the technology to make them doesn't even exhist yet. It seems like a patent pending is the best way to go, because it gives you some lead time to get your stuff out there before someone can copy it, by changing or tweaking one little thing
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