Get your Pulse while you still can

[mag_lover05]

im waiting for someone to sue over gravity and their 200r. gravity fed hoppers

[jenarelJAM]

Heh, and I was worried about them becomign too common. Glad I got mine :P

[ricwhic414]

i know what you mean, i love mine....

but itl probly be nice when i can sell it like a year later for $200..

only problem is,...should the shell crack...kinda SOL

hopefuly if its sent in for repairs(if they still do them) they wont snatch it and send you a check or something

Ya my friend just went and got some intending to sell them down the road, because I told him about this.

[cyrus-the-virus]

Why is NPS seuing them? What did they patent the DXS infringed on?

Paintball is going down the toilet because of these, finally some one releases a good product, then someone sues over it.

So much for the APE pulse board

[geekwarrior]

Why is NPS seuing them? What did they patent the DXS infringed on?

Paintball is going down the toilet because of these, finally some one releases a good product, then someone sues over it.

So much for the APE pulse board

it may not be a patent infringement but a disclosure violation.

[d4m4don3]

it may not be a patent infringement but a disclosure violation.

or did they fail to follow the reverse engineering process?

Doesn't it go something like this?
Engineer A examines said product, Engineer A writes up a spec for product, Engineer B tries to reproduce product off of specs from party a without seeing the original product?

[FinchMan]

i read the link, and in one of the temporary restraining order PDFs it said patent number 5791325.

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5791325&id=CqkbAAAAEBAJ&dq=5791325

basically what is patented [in its preferred embodiment] is using a hall-effect sensor and a magnet on the bolt to tell when the gun is fired, and a time-delay circuit so the motor spins continuously instead of starting and stopping in rapid succession (and wasting batteries) when the gun is fired rapidly.

In my opinion they're stretching the patent. The patent did mention there are other ways to detect when the gun is firing, but they don't mention the intellifeed as prior art. I didn't see anything coving wireless circuits, but maybe the pulse uses the exact simple circuits described in the patent for the motor spin timing.

[warbeak2099]

I support NPS.

[mag_lover05]

heres more info

http://furby.pbcproductions.com/NPSvProCapsLoader.pdf

[d4m4don3]

Wow that was a lot of reading.
Looks like Procaps and NPS have been fighting it out for a while.

[skriptal]

That seems to just be NPS's side of the story from what i have read so far, and its a interesting read also. With LOTS of complaints against Procaps

[Head knight of Ni]

Sorry Canada, but $160 was too much for a hopper anyways.

[skriptal]

summary of the pdf here are the complaints NPS has against procaps


1.2. Trademark Infringement over the Pulse being very similar shaped to the Halo.

Lying about the origin of halo design and pulse shape

3.NPS claims this causes unfair competition
4. Claiming that consumers could get confused between the pulse and halo
5.NPS claims this causes unfair competition
6. Cybersquatting over the domain, International Paintball Supply
7.False Advertising

in the video where they claim the Halo waits for a gap in the ball stack,
and that they make the Diablo, 32 degrees and fuel paintball brands.

8. Illegally using Trade secret info.

Claiming that that NPS owns the rights to produce wireless loaders and Procaps knew that NPS was planning to come out with a wireless loader so they purposefully released a loader to steal NPS's thunder from coming out with the first wireless loader.

9.10.Procaps breaking contract with NPS

Procaps used to have an agreement with NPS to have NPS exclusively distribute their products, and then when Procaps got big, they illegally broke contract and started to distribute their items on their own.

11.Infringing on Patent 5791325
12. 13. 14. 15. More complaints over the Pulse looking similar to the halo
16.Unfair competition over who can distribute the pulse.
17.Another complaint about Infringing on Patent 5791325
18. Procaps is illegally making money of patent infringement

Feel free to edit my list or correct anything i said as I am no lawyer and cannot read in general. I aint go no smarts either.

[SpecialBlend2786]

Sorry Canada, but $160 was too much for a hopper anyways.

Yep, and I still think $120 is too much as well. But that's just me.

[Bigman]

From Pro Caps it sounds like they're fighting. Still being on the safe side I just ordered my RF chip and I'll install it myself.