On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:26:29 -0400, Bill
wrote:

Lew Hodgett wrote:
Bill wrote:
In other bad news, Jet and Powermatic were bought up in Oct/2013:

http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/wo...h_your_sistem?
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As venture capitalists, wonder how they plan to respond to the SawStop
activity in the market place to protect their investments?

Lew


That's a good question. How many years a left on the patents in
question? Maybe at today's (low) borrowing rates, waiting is cheap.

The basic SawStop patents were issued in 2002, so they have another
eight years to run. There are others but the biggies are the first
ones. The rest is engineering.