On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:34:04 -0500, Swingman wrote:

On 9/28/2011 11:17 PM, Mike Paulsen wrote:
advance notice of proposed rulemaking for performance requirements to
address table saw blade contact injuries.

September 14, 2011

http://www.cpsc.gov/LIBRARY/FOIA/FOI...f/tablesaw.pdf

A rebuttal to Mr Gass by the PTI issued today 10/18 ... if you're going
to argue either way, you still need to read it:


http://www.protoolreviews.com/news/i...ble-saw-safety

Interesting section, copied he

Stephen Gass, a patent attorney, has filed more than 120 U.S. patent
applications, and has over 70 issued U.S. patents which pertain to the
SawStop technology.

quote

Stephen Gass told the U.S. government that it should assume that no
manufacturer will be able to introduce injury mitigation technology that
does not infringe on his patents.

After the PTI-JV technology became known, SawStop amended one of their
then-pending patent applications to purportedly cover any table saw that
retracts the blade rapidly within 14 milliseconds – using any retraction
technique after detecting contact. This patent application which was
subsequently allowed by the U.S. Patent Office, is arguably not limited
to SawStop's blade brake technology for retracting the blade, but rather
is designed to cover any retraction technique, hindering the development
of alternative blade retraction technologies and blocking competing
inventors from using their own inventions.

/quote

I believe the only remedy is to allow the gummint to mandate SS use,
build a knock off on a saw, sell it, let Gass sue you, file an
anti-trust suit against the monopoly, and have the patent seized by
the gummint, nullifying the infringement. Then everyone is happy,
fingers are safe, and saws aren't priced out of reach.

The only one to lose this time is the frackin' speaking weasel!
For a change. wink

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Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why
good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a
heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people
can handle it.
-- Hugh Macleod