Complete Listing of Paintball Patents

[AGD]

All,

Here is an interesting list of almost all the paintball patents put together by Michael 'Have Blue' Guslick. They are interesting to look through and see who patents what. Even more interesting are the patents that you DON'T see because they didn't have anything to patent. You can see from the list who is doing creative stuff and who isn't.

AGD

http://airsoldier.com/~haveblue/tech/patents

(Thanks Chaos, I fixed it here. Army)

[magking1971]

Link not working tom.

[Dubstar112]

http://www.delphion.com/cgi-bin/viewpat.cmd/USD0441410__?MODE=fstv&OUT_FORMAT=pdf

that looks like the old DL frames.

[LittMag]

I actually have some of those "sniper balls" lying around =P

Oh of note...
AGD Automag - note that Tom Kaye's last name is really 'Kotsiopoulos' - I guess he does look a little Greek... :-)

[Shaft]

Ack! It's Delphion! These people are sending me junk email at work everyday. Ok, like you all care.
I use the government site for my patent searches. Yeah, yeah. I'll shut up now.
r

[JanStah]

http://www.delphion.com/details?&pn10=US05285765

This is a patent on the Powerfeed. I was under the impression that you invented this and never patented it...

Care to comment on this?

Jan.

[SIGSays]

so what if his last name is Kotsiopoulos, he brought us the mag so i have no complaint even if he was a geek

[Jonneh]

Bwahahaha

Tom, did you draw the diagrams? the picture of the dude holding the Z grip is gold!

also, whats up with the powerfeed thing?

[Temo Vryce]

Actually I believe that it was the PMI 3/VM 68 that first came out with the power feed but I could be wrong so don't quote me on that.

[Have Blue]

Thanks for posting the link, Tom. If anyone comes across additional paintball patents, please drop me a line (I'm sure I've missed a couple in digging through the patent servers).

Regarding the links to Delphion - I originally had all the patent links pointing to the appropriate pages on Delphion, but then they announced that they were going to begin charging for access... I then began adding in links to the USPTO's patents as well as .pdf files of the patents themselves (certainly the easiest way to read them, in my opinion). I keep adding more .pdf files every so often, but they do take time to create (I have to use a backdoor into Delphion to nab one .pdf page at a time).

Regarding the powerfeed (http://airsoldier.com/~haveblue/tech/patents/5285765.pdf), the PMI-3/VM-68 never had a powerfeed - just a rather blocky direct-feed mounting (the very same one as used on Sheridan's short-lived Equalizer). Pro-Team later came out with a powerfeed that mounts in place of the direct feed block.

[AGD]

Yes we DID invent the power feed in 1990, if you check the date on this guys patent is was much later. The patent office doesn't check to see if there is anyone else already making the invention they just take your money and check the other patents. No we didn't patent it because we didn't think anyone else would use it.

AGD

[Load SM5]

If you had known then.......

[CRySyS]

For all intents and purposes the patent is useless. Due to prior art, or AGDs use of the powerfeed, the patent holder can never enforce the patent.

[Dubstar112]

i bet they have a whole section devoted to smartparts/pneu ventures.

[absocountry2]

What aboutt he modular feed patient on the extreme body? I know it is pending, but Airguns Europe did it from what I understand. Any info?

[Have Blue]

I haven't come across anything on the modular body yet. The only tool I've used for browsing european patents is espacenet, and they don't appear to have any tools to do a boolean search of _just_ applications (and Delphion charges for such access).

Will keep digging, though.

[Clockwork_Orange]

What ever happened to Tom Kaye's "Perfect Circle" paintballs?????

[JAM]

Did shocktech come up with the removable breech for the SFL?

how did that come about?

[poolshark5226]

Manike's uber loader looks incredibly similar to the Cyclone feed from Tippmann...

[behemoth]

The Moneyshot ;)

[NJPaint]

SP has the patent on a ported barrel?

[Kid_A]

Do you still produce those Tom? In the patent, it even mentions that they are cheaper to produce than regular gelatin paintballs. Is that still true, or can gelatin paintballs be produced much cheaper now?

[minnimag]

yup, i remember readin in a SP catolog from years ago about how their AA berral was a patended porting design

[wobbles82]

Oh man...those sniper balls are some funny looking buggers. They look kinda like Nerf rounds or something. Heh. And god...that Z-Grip drawing...lolololol. Good stuff Tom, good stuff. :D

[Goldie D Pimp]

If memory serves me correctly that smart parts patent had a hand in why BOA isn't around anymore.......

[akscubainst]

If the Freak is patented then why are there several barrel systems out there using the same idea?

It seems like if SP want's to bust violators of it's patents that one would be a slam dunk.

Chasing down this silly "on/off" issue may very well pay off for them in immediate cash settlements but in terms of reputation and future sales it may kill them.

Chasing Freak patent violators would be a legitament case and wouldn't (shouldn't) have an adverse affect on their reputation.

Thoughts?

Dave

[cphilip]

Originally posted by akscubainst
If the Freak is patented then why are there several barrel systems out there using the same idea?

Dave

Actualy Powerlyte Scepters had to change its design last year to comply... you cannot see the inserts from the outside anymore.


AND QUIT CALLING TOM A GEEK!!!! ITS GREEK!!!

[GatoLoco]

didnt otp have an insert system before the freak. Also, I remember the Bob Long Sniper barrel had inserts.