Horatio
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The whole Nero lawsuit was one of the cases that I least agreed with.Some of what they do is ridiculous, but I kinda understand the Nero thing. That was a pretty blatant copy, and they even came up with a similar name . But at the end of the day, I don’t worry about what big companies do to each other. I buy whatever works for me. I love my Xmaxx, and will probably get an XRT.
The laydown suspension was somehow 'patented, even though it is abundantly evident that Traxass did NOT innovate or create laydown suspension in any way shape or form - or at any scale.
Insufficient research had been carried out by whichever office awarded the half-arsed, bogus patent.
Whatever - Traxass did somehow manage to cobble together a patent, then sought to enforce it by choosing a venue in Texas that had a history of finding in favour of the complainant. It was a ruse which they rinse repeated over and over.
One which the Supreme Court made an attempt to prevent from happening (eventually) by stipulating that the defendant gets to choose the venue. But Traxass even managed to find loopholes around that
To surmise, the essence or spirit of the law - ones designed to encourage innovation and/or protect creative or inventive people are being exploited by companies for nefarious motives - principally to put competitors out of business. Meanwhile, cloned stuff gets sold all the time on a massive scale from countries that completely ignore patents. While in the west, legit companies are punished unfairly. Seems wrong to me.
This is an assault on the consumer, too, by limiting your choice.
The whole name thing is laughable really. Especially XTR and XRT. They're pretty close. Should people be worried?
I totally get that Xmaxxs are cool, cheap to fix, durable and light - loads of fun. Ditto for the XRT.
It's important that people get to enjoy their favourite rigs without prejudice.
But I genuinely believe that Traxass as a company and it's dubious tactics should be hauled to task over it and dealt with once and for all.