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Originally Posted by caveman787
ok so the ? is would it be infringment for Alpha to make pneumatically assisted mags? I sure as heck want 1.
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Sure, if it was a service or product offered for sale or was done so in a way that would have a financial impact on the Patent holder. Like if someone were to make a bunch and give them away for the sole purpose of devaluing the Patent or the like.
The real question is would BE/K2 really go after him? If it was done low key and in low volume, especially after the product has already hit the market, very doubtful.Not worth the time and effort.
But if done very public, like posting it in a public paintball forum, prior to the intial release of the product they 'may' just issue a ceist and desist order if anything and he would just end up stuck with his initial investment of parts , time and labor and such.
Bottom line is this, no one who's doing the home version of this product is even close to reaching the performance I've shown with mine or Nicad has shown with his hAir. So in the end, anyone who has the chance to shoot both side by side (if PTPs ever makes it out) will see the obvious differences and there won't likely be any real competition. It is a nice little home mod to try out though, for those who like to tinker it's not that hard to come up with a functional version much like that of the AO thread. Those guys have really done there homework on the best way to biuld it with over the counter parts. Kudos to them.