On Aug 12, 8:39*am, keith wrote:
On Aug 12, 5:58*am, "Ed Pawlowski" wrote:



wrote

As soon as someone comes up with a competing technology the patent is
useless and the price drops hard.

There is no "competing technology". *He has the IDEA of a sensor detecting
a
person's digits tripping a brake that stops a blade, patented. *The patent
is
pretty basic to the problem at hand. *The inventor is a patent lawyer.
You
don't think he's covered his bases?

Everyone trusts "technology" to cure whatever problem there is. *That's
why we
have the leftist morons whining for more solar and wind power.

If everyone has your negative attitude, then yes, there never will be. *Give
the recent jury award for an injury, I'm sure other companies are looking
into a different method of stopping saws. *No matter how complex a puzzle,
patent, or secret code may be, if one man can make it, another can break it.
Let's talk again in 3 to 5 years.

You *obviously* don't understand patents. *He has this one locked up
tight. *It has nothing to do with "technology", rather "function". *A
better brake wouldn't get around the patent, nor would a better
detection device. *It has nothing to do with "attitude". *Sorry, but
that's the way it is.

Perhaps it is not so cut and dried, as you imagine.
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?p=1389013
Fifth post down.

Gass was not the first or only one to think up a saw brake, he was
just the first one to patent one and get it to market. Note the
number of patents his patent references:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...9+AND+blade%29

R