Scubaroo
Contributor
As mentioned in one of the earlier 200-odd posts, so you are forgiven for missing it, one or more of the defendants have been asked to hand over OTHER items of stock apart from weight pockets in order to settle. Wings were mentioned for instance. Makes it sound like the lawsuit is merely a cover, rather than being simply about enforcing a patent on non-ditchable trim weights, or whatever the patents cover.dive:
And once more for the record, Halcyon is not the plaintiff. It's this "Carleigh Rae Corporation", who on the face of it appear to have connections to Halcyon through a common individual. But the question of the wings sort of throws an interesting angle on the connections. Why would what looks to be a shell corporation that owns nothing more than a couple of trim weight patents be demanding wings from a defendant as part of the settlement? Hmm, which well known manufacturer has probably lost a bucketload of wing sales in the past 6 months?
I'm betting the whole thing is simply to do with wing sales. No-one appears to own a patent on wings. So how do you get at your competitors if you can't sue them for wing patent violations? Find another patent perhaps?
No doubt more facts will probably become public once the case is over, but no-one from either the plaintiffs or the defendants have joined the thread (there's a surprise, not!), so until that happens, this is all speculation.
