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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorjj" data-source="post: 1437226" data-attributes="member: 7292"><p>Akins sounds like a douche. Obviously he got screwed but the the way he defended himself repeating himself over and over with those long posts was so tiresome. I thought of a couple of things as I was reading that thread. First off, his patent states that that action has to cycle forward and backward a predetermined distance. Well, what if you designed a stock that let it travel a non predetermined distance? Patent infringement averted. Second off, he kept saying that if similar designs or thoughts had been in the public domain that he would have never been issued a patent. Well, I don't know if they were or not but the patent office issues patents every single day that should be invalid for that exact reason. At this point it's moot, but had it been allowed and taken off as a business, I guarantee there would have been enough evidence of public domain to invalidate his patent. Now nobody even cares. I mean, why would anyone spend $20,000 trying to invalidate a patent for a product you can't market?</p></blockquote><p></p>