Crossbreed Patent, What Does This Mean

[runco]

On my facebook, what does the 1st paragraph mean?

 

Edited May 31, 2014 by Runco

[Raoul]

Well probably that all those knockoffs of the Supertuck will be harder to find.

[xjsnake]

It means I have an order to place ASAP.

[TNMTBik3r]

It took them how long to get a patent? Only a dozen companies making imitations now.

[Doobie]

It means that all those Hybrid holster makers like Alien Gear, etc... now may receive cease and desist orders, stop production, or reach a licensing deal with Crossbreed. Ultimately, at this point, it is up to Crossbreed what they want to do with it. 

[Ugly]

Dang,

 

I just got my aliens 2 weeks ago, glad I ordered them while the price is low.

[Dane]

It really depends on what their patent is for. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

[WindHawk]

+1 Dane.  It all depends on how the patent is written.  Many product design patents are pretty easy to work around. Even if the patent owner fights it and wins the money involved may not be worth the battle.  

[Oh Shoot]

That's really odd, he mentioned copyright patent years ago.

 

Couple three years ago or more seems Mark put pressure on what's his name that was making the cheaper similar ones on infringement basis --the guy shut down for a bit and redesigned them so that the leather was round and for customers to cut to suit. What was that outfit? i know lots of folks here bought them. edit: it was Kholster, and still in biz sorta I see.

 

Then so many others started in on them too, including the big national makers, so obviously couldn't defend it anymore. There are dozens of companies doing it now, maybe a hundred or more.

 

Of course, everybody ripped off Tucker's "The Answer" which was AFAIK first way back when.. Then Comp-Tac cranked up with CTAC, MTAC and Minotaur and similar, and still at it -- anyway, Crossbreed was far from the first leather/kydex hybrid maker, but certainly gained significant market share pretty quick..

 

At any rate, I'd say his copyright  patent at this point is worth whatever he's willing to spend to defend it, my take, maybe easier against anyone making super exact clones.

 

- OS

Edited May 31, 2014 by Oh Shoot

[Monkeyman2500]

Wow just ordered an alien last month. Might have been good timing.

[R_Bert]

I think George Kelgren once commented (paraphrased) that the only purpose of a patent was to give one the right to spend huge $ on meaningless lawsuits. e.g. that the ROI was dismal.

[mcordell]

I have owned many IWBs for my glock 19 from crossbreed, comp-tac, raven, theis, foxx leather, galco and desantis

My whitehat is the most comfortable :-) .... Just got it in about 3 weeks ago

[BigK]

I'm also curious what aspect of the holster he managed to get a patent for. Whatever it was, should be easy enough to work around, since he didn't invent the concept to begin with.

[Trekbike]

I'm also curious what aspect of the holster he managed to get a patent for. Whatever it was, should be easy enough to work around, since he didn't invent the concept to begin with.

 

 

See the link below for their patent.

 

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,672,201.PN.&OS=PN/8,672,201&RS=PN/8,672,201

[runco]

See the link below for their patent.

 

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,672,201.PN.&OS=PN/8,672,201&RS=PN/8,672,201

Thats pretty cool, thanks for posting.

[Trekbike]

Thats pretty cool, thanks for posting.

 

You're welcome.   Once the page is open you can click on the image tab up in the top middle section.   It will take you to the normal viewing of the patent including the images which are numbered so you can follow the text in the patent when they reference a number that will be shown on the various images.  

 

To step through the pages of the patent you can use the arrows on the left side of the page.

[peejman]

It means that all those Hybrid holster makers like Alien Gear, etc... now may receive cease and desist orders, stop production, or reach a licensing deal with Crossbreed. Ultimately, at this point, it is up to Crossbreed what they want to do with it.

Depends on how the patent is written and whether the other makers can claim "prior art". If any of the others can show proof that they had a design before Crossbreed filed for the patent, they'd be able to keep right on going and there's nothing Crossbreed can do.