On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 21:02:10 -0400, woodchucker
wrote:

On 9/15/2015 3:36 PM, Leon wrote:
Looks like the SawStop competition is heating up. This is a pretty good
review of the job site saw by a Bosch rep.

Nice to see that the SawStop patents did not choke the competition as
some thought might happen.

It will be interesting to see if Bosch or others will come up with a
larger more stationary saw.

http://www.toolsofthetrade.net/video...le-saw/2194198


nice, but will it stand up in court. Seems like it's infringing on the
use of the sensing technology, which is really a gfci test.

No, it's significantly different. A least SawStop measures
capacitance, not leakage. The difference might not be obvious to you
but it's significant enough.

The lowering is different than saw stop, so I don't see that as a risk.

IIRC (it's been a while since I read the patents) the patents claim a
blade that retracts when triggered. It doesn't matter how it
retracts.

Again, this is job site, not a cabinet saw.

It's still a measure of Gass' patents. If nothing else, he's a good
patent lawyer. We'll see if Bosch has better. I'm really surprised
Bosch challenged them now.