Chris, If Cedric has published about the 2-way throttle or made it public knowledge before Vectrix' patent priority date, then their patent is null and void anyway. That is how patents work, they can only protect things that were not yet published, the so-called prior art.
Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless Corporation http://www.proxim.com Email: [email protected] Private: http://www.cvandewater.info Skype: cor_van_de_water Tel: +1 408 383 7626 -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Tromley via EV Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 3:22 PM To: Lee Hart; Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] Vectrix bankruptcy auction June 18 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/20140510/13ed 6c7c/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) _______________________________________________ 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)
