I'd be interested to know if any intellectual property is available for sale. Could be very handy for someone who wants to make a small business keeping existing Vectrixes running to have access to drawings and other design documentation.
I also wonder about their patents. If no one buys the rights to them, and the assignee is a company that is dissolved, does that render them effectively invalid? They hold a patent on a twist-grip throttle that goes two ways. The normal way for go, the opposite way to control the level of regen braking. It's so intuitively obvious I thought of it myself, then found Cedric Lynch thought of it long before me (AND long before Vectrix!). Yet Vectrix got a patent and excluded everyone from doing the obvious. Can anyone configure an electric motorcycle throttle like that now? Chris On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Lee Hart via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > I just received the following email on another list. Since it should be of > interest to EV'ers (especially if they live in the Massachusetts area), I'm > posting a copy of it here: > > The Vectrix Electric Motorcycle Shop in Bedford, MA is now in Chap. 7, >> liquidation. The auction will be on June 18, including bikes, hoists, >> shop >> presses, etc. See below. >> http://www.pesco.com/servlet/SelectAuction.do?auctionId= >> 9256&path=/servlet/AuctionInfo.do >> >> I’m sad to state that on March 31, 2014, Vectrix LLC filed a chapter 7 >> bankruptcy petition in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of >> Massachusetts and I was appointed as its Chapter 7 trustee. The case >> number >> is 14-11381-WCH. I’ve had a chance to see the different motorcycles; the >> VX-1 and VX-2 and the very cool VX-3 with its stable three-wheel >> configuration. Unfortunately, the company has shut down. We will be >> auctioning off the remaining assets on June 18, 2014, at the company >> headquarters in New Bedford. >> >> Paul A. Saperstein & Co. <www.pesco.com*<http://www.pesco.com/> will >> conduct the auction, and on-line bidding will be available. The assets >> being sold will include 75 complete Vectrix all electric VX1, VX2& VX3 >> Motorcycles& Scooters, about 100 new Lithium Ion batteries suitable for >> use in Vectrix cycles, and more than 1.6 million dollars’ worth of >> replacement parts. In addition, the auction will include electronics, >> office equipment, assembly plant machinery and an extensive selection of >> machine shop and manufacturing equipment. >> >> Paul A. Saperstein & Co's complete auction guide is available online at >> <http://bit.ly/vectrix*<http://bit.ly/vectrix>. We might also include >> any available intellectual property and other intangible assets. >> >> Submitted by: Warren E. Agin, Chapter 7 Trustee. >> > > -- > We ascribe beauty to that which is simple, with no superfluous parts; > which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things, and > is the mean of many extremes. Ralph Waldo Emerson > -- > Lee Hart's EV projects are at http://www.sunrise-ev.com/LeesEVs.htm > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/ > group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140510/13ed6c7c/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
