Big Bad Business vs Plucky Little Guy?

Pretty sure the Lightspeed Archon C3 had a slight concave downtube to get the bottle cage lower and tighter to the frame. It hardly seems very innovative, hence the design patent.

First Aspect wrote:

Since I'm not on Facetube or anything,
Or is the little guy actually Eric Cartman?

Who?

First Aspect wrote:

Hinaultscrapcousin wrote:

Pretty sure the Lightspeed Archon C3 had a slight concave downtube to get the bottle cage lower and tighter to the frame. It hardly seems very innovative, hence the design patent.

Its not a design patent, believe it or not.

Really?! That's... err... Ok.

As far as I know Taiwan aren't signatories to PCT are they? So basically, unless he's filed an international patent elsewhere he's shit out of luck I think.

First Aspect wrote:

Hinaultscrapcousin wrote:

First Aspect wrote:

Hinaultscrapcousin wrote:

Pretty sure the Lightspeed Archon C3 had a slight concave downtube to get the bottle cage lower and tighter to the frame. It hardly seems very innovative, hence the design patent.

Its not a design patent, believe it or not.

Really?! That's... err... Ok.

As far as I know Taiwan aren't signatories to PCT are they? So basically, unless he's filed an international patent elsewhere he's shoot out of luck I think.

There appear to be pending applications in China and Korea. Not sure what stage these two are at.

Besides, don't Pinarello manufacture and sell in Taiwan?

I didn't think the manufacturing location mattered. I thought it was just the sales location. As such they could block sales where they have the patent but not elsewhere.

First Aspect wrote:

No, manufacture, use, offering for sale, sale and importation are probably infringing acts. In principle.

Fair enough, thanks for the clarification.

Pinarello have responded, pretty much accusing Velocité of patent trolling:

http://www.bikeradar.com/road/news/arti ... nts-48961/


Time to sit back and watch the school-yard type lawyer antics unfold...