DIYbanter - View Single Post - Consumer Products Safety Commision - New table saw rules on the horizon.(sawstop, et. al.)

HeyBub[_3_]

zzzzzzzzzz wrote:

You raise a good point, but patents can be litigated out of
existence. The ten or so saw manufacturers have, combined, access to
more patent attorneys than the owner of SawStop has friends on
Facebook.

Can be, if you have MILLION$ to gamble. This one is particularly
air-tight. No one with a brain would challenge it.

Heh! Ever heard the expression "Time is money"? Back in the day, Control
Data and the anti-trust division of the Justice Department, sued IBM. IBM
had more lawyers on the case than the DOJ had lawyers in the entire
anti-trust division! IBM dragged the case out for a little over TEN years.
Throwing money at the suit was just another cost of doing business. In other
words, IBM was making more money than the suit was costing them.

A similar tactic has been recently employed by Microsoft.

Now it may be that Ryoibi, DeWalt, et all do not have the $35 billion in
CASH that Microsoft has, but they damned sure have more moola than SawStop.
The table-saw cartel, really, can litigate SawStop to death if they choose
that tactic. For example, by claiming patent infringement on the part of
SawStop ("We control the patent on all things that go round-and-round...").

While that's going on, there's money to be made.

No, there really isn't.

As soon as SawStop is mandated, one can stock up on entry-level
table saws, at, say, $90 each, while they're still available. A year
or so down the road, when entry-level table saws have disappeared
from the market or sell for $500 each, you can sell those hoarded
saws on Craigslist for whatever the market will bear.

Why would anyone sell them for $90?

Do light bulbs, instead.

That's what I paid for my Ryobi about two years ago. As for lightbulbs, I
figure there are already too many people in the lightbulb hoarding business.