DYE sues SP! DISCUSS!

[thorn]

blow forward

[gotboostedvr6]

any new info on this?

[Glickman]

any new info on this?

yep, the news is that is happend a year ago

[FARMER00]

baahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, piss on it all just use a mech gun

[SpecialBlend2786]

http://www.68caliber.com/news/industry/story041644.php
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[iambored]

This is gonna be ugly and which ever side loses is gonna have their prices sky-rocket
But I don't buy dye or sp so its all good

[cyrus-the-virus]

I'm supporting SP through this mess.

DYE products are over priced and over hyped and put a worse attitude in peoples heads than the ion does.

I'd rather fork out $600(which I won't) for a SP shocker rather than $1200 for a DM7. I think everyone is sick of the $1000+ guns.

I may not like you but GO SP!!!!

EDIT: Well nvm then I guess it would have been the DM5 and the PM5, considering this was posted over a year ago.

No wonder it wasent on pbnation. Stupid necro posters. who won anyhow?

[SlartyBartFast]

original spool valve in paintball

in paintball, IMO that's the evil of the patent system. Commercial off-the-shelf ideas and compoents patented in other areas. Little is "new" in paintball to anyone with a pneumatics or controls background.

No, its not the same thing. SP took their original patent for the shocker (which no one had a problem with) and filed for an extension, in which the patent was broadened greatly to include common sense features such as a switch or a battery (which everyone had a problem with because its absurd).

I will grant that the exact layout of the valve in this case is probably legitimately paintball specific. As any non-paintball spool valves don't incorporate the firing of a projectile.

But SP isn't the only one trying to patent the blatently obvious. WDP patented the use of programming, displays, and communication from controller chips. All off-the-shelf functions of every microcontroller.

Guess the people with the most money for the patent lawyers wins...

[Lohman446]

Thread resurection? Already settled if I recall on the agreement signed between SP, Dye, and WDP

[cyrus-the-virus]

Thread resurection? Already settled if I recall on the agreement signed between SP, Dye, and WDP

Doesen't WDP use a popit? correct me if I'm wrong.

[SCpoloRicker]

RogueFactor:

[hitech]

Guess the people with the most money for the patent lawyers wins...

[y0da900]

Doesen't WDP use a popit? correct me if I'm wrong.

The WDP portion stems from the electronics part of the dispute, not the spool features.

And yes, Angels use poppets.

[WenULiVeUdiE]

I'd rather fork out $600(which I won't) for a SP shocker rather than $1200 for a DM7. I think everyone is sick of the $1000+ guns.

Just want to comment here- I think there will be a great shift in where manufacturers price their products. Prices will begin to come down as new, lower priced markers, such as the Rail and Mini, come out. Or there will at least be much less demand for these $1000+ markers.

[LudavicoSoldier]

holy crap! this thread is STILL going!? wow...