Brass Eagle announces settlement of Odyssey lawsuit

[manike]

Originally posted by shartley

I disagree. If BE could have taken it all the way and won I think they would have.

Sometimes companies settle out of court because they can't take the risk of it going further.

[pito189]

So the HALO B doesn't have an eye at all?

[WARPED1]

As far as I'm concerned,the HALO B is the better loader.

[shartley]

Originally posted by manike
I disagree. If BE could have taken it all the way and won I think they would have.

Sometimes companies settle out of court because they can't take the risk of it going further.

[WARPED1]

Originally posted by pito189
So the HALO B doesn't have an eye at all?

I don't think so,the B stands for "belt drive".The only true force feed loader.

[RamboPreacher]

All you nay-sayers can bash BE all you want...
I am going to go out on Monday and by me some more stock!

[Muzikman]

MONEY! It's all about the money Sam. Think of it this way. Big BE who has money to burn could keep this in litigation for years and burn up poor Oddessey's money until they go under. This has happened with MANY small software companies over the years.

[hitech]

Originally posted by manike
Sometimes companies settle out of court because they can't take the risk of it going further.

That is a very common reason. You can rarely be SURE that you will win.

Another reason for settling out of court is that it will cost you MORE to win. If it costs more to win, did you?

[WARPED1]

BE is to paintball what Microsoft is to the computer world.And that's all I have to say about that.

[cphilip]

Well first of all let me step in here and Moderate just a minute...

Calling someone annoying is flaming. And its childish flamming at that. If all you have to say to Sams argument is that, then you need to not post at all. Resorting to Grade school behavious and going NA NA NA NANA is not realy something I realy think is worthy of a post count now do you? Now then, look up at Simons response. Take an example from that. He dissagreed but he puts forth a good argument for why. Now there is a fine example of how to disagree with a point and make a counter point. But just calling someone a name is just childish. And unnessicary and not in the AO spirit at all. Plus its against the rules!

OK now for my take on this...

It seems the patent office will issue a patent on just about anything these days. No one should have given VL a patent on something so simple. Seems Odyssey presented the biggest challenge to them so they were the best target. But seriously folks someone needs to get real in the patent office. Just because you have the filing fee and some paper does not give you the right to patent something so simple and widely used in other manufacturing techec's

[Muzikman]

I will agree with you there. I have seen a few things out there that makes no sense as to why someone has claim to it. Take "Instant Messaging", since AOL bought ICQ a few years back, they went to court and now has the right to sue anyone that uses the idea of messaging someone who is on the internet. It doesn't even matter if they are using the same technology. If I can find the article, I'll post it, it's pretty damn funny.

The other case of this is the company that came up with the protective plastic covers for PDAs. They now have full rights to a clear plastic sheet that covers the PDA, regardless of how it works and/or attaches.

To me, these cases almost sound like a monopoly. I mean come on, just cause something looks like something else or serves the same purpose does not my you should be able to sue that person. If this were the case, we would only see Fords driving around. Hmm...wonder if I can get patent on a box with 4 wheels and some sort of propulsion device?

[SpongeBobSquarePants]

I think BE was wrong in what they did, I mean I don't think oddessy infriendged (sp) on anything. I mean I haven't read the patents but if you look at the way the halo and the VL oporate its a totally different. I mean if I was a big CEO sitting back at BE not careing a damn think about are sport I woul be thinking "Lets sit back and watch this till they are in the money, then hit them and ride it all the way to the bank." That would have been the logicl thing for them to do. But do they wait till a company is strong enough to defend its self? No they don't they want a great product of the market for some reason. Some people should be slaped. Ok I just had to vent.

[Dragoon]

Originally posted by RamboPreacher
All you nay-sayers can bash BE all you want...
I am going to go out on Monday and by me some more stock!

Sad but true.
I think I may do the same.

Douglas

[Kevmaster]

[Muzikman]

Hmm...interesting...Wonder how many halo's they got in stock, might have to buy a few.