A business which holds patents is able to protect itself from financial harm from competitors if it can demonstrate that a competitor is infringing upon its patent.
An individual is free to make, for his own use, a thing which is patented by a company without fear of being sued by the patent holder. Anyone who chases DX on the low bands and who wishes to homebrew a product produced by anyone, may do so. Keep in mind that anyone may sue anyone over just about anything. Filing a lawsuit is not a win. Dave Heil K8MN On 12/28/2010 17 19, Cecil Acuff wrote: > PDS Electronics Inc. or more commonly know as DX Engineering or more > commonly known as W8JI. (all in the public domain) I guess Tom feels Lee's > product design is a copy of his product design marketed through DX > Engineering. > > Lee's is significantly different in that it uses Hi Impedance amplifiers at > the antennas that usually eliminates the need for ground radials and helps > improve the performance bandwidth. > > Ultimately I guess this will be a battle between Array Solutions and DX > Engineering but the root is as mentioned above is my guess. > > Hard to guess the outcome...problem is someone always gets hurt in these > kind of things. > > I wish them both the best and hope a solution that will benefit the Amateur > Radio community will result. > > Cecil Acuff > K5DL ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1191 / Virus Database: 1435/3344 - Release Date: 12/28/10 _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
