On Sat, 26 May 2018 20:47:43 -0700 (PDT), "
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I bet he signed over all rights to the show when he signed the original contract. Just sore feelings now. This sounds about like if the SawStop inventor, who sold the company to Festool. If next year Festool improves the SawStop and makes lots of sales, the inventor guy then sues Festool for stealing his saw business. He sold it! But he is a lawyer I heard. So its very possible he is starting a lawsuit against Festool right now. Maybe claiming they should have paid him twice what they paid him the first time.

The biggest problem with him has always been that he's a lawyer.
Instead of coming up with an idea and bringing it to market and
selling it, his original plan was to get a law passed forcing everyone
to license his patent. When that failed then he started making a
product but continued to try to get laws passed forcing people to buy
it. He still failed at that. Then he showed his true colors after
arguing for years that he was only interested in protecting people by
suing Bosch when they developed a different system that achieves a
similar result.

Apparently Festool took Gass on as part of the package--they say that
the management team remains in force. I think it was a bad choice on
Festool's part. The patents expire in 3 years and I suspect that the
market will be flooded with clones shortly after.