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Posted: 2/20/2020 11:45:21 AM EDT
Been doing some reading on the GSG page, and Google.  Could not find the final outcome/settlement.  I even see where GSG found out that HK didn't really have the right to sue since the design was based of the CETME. So back in 2014, they went after HK.  Anyone know the outcome of this?

So this has me wondering if this is why PTR insists on welding on the top rail of the 9C and 9CT?  Just a CYA  that changes features??
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So this has me wondering if this is why PTR insists on welding on the top rail of the 9C and 9CT?  Just a CYA  that changes features??
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PTR also does not put the triple tower sling loop on the CT but puts one on the KT. Just the opposite of HK.
Also their "Navy" lower style marking are on the opposite side. Keeping in line with that different but similar track.
Link Posted: 2/20/2020 6:02:35 PM EDT
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I would think on any of the guns the patents would have expired by now.  AR15 manufactures are not being sued by Colt (anymore)
Link Posted: 2/21/2020 7:49:05 AM EDT
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I would think on any of the guns the patents would have expired by now.  AR15 manufactures are not being sued by Colt (anymore)
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Patent expired a long time ago.
Link Posted: 2/21/2020 11:40:12 AM EDT
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I was part of a company that got sued back then.

It was a trademark issue, not a patent issue.

They dropped the suits when companies promised not to mention HK and MP5 in reference to their clone product.

At least that is my recollection.
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I was part of a company that got sued back then.

It was a trademark issue, not a patent issue.

They dropped the suits when companies promised not to mention HK and MP5 in reference to their clone product.

At least that is my recollection.
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That makes sense.  Kind of like when Shelby tried suing all the Cobra kit car companies for the basic shape of the car, that he never designed.
Link Posted: 2/22/2020 6:43:27 AM EDT
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That makes sense.  Kind of like when Shelby tried suing all the Cobra kit car companies for the basic shape of the car, that he never designed.
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I wonder if this is partially why the PSA project looks like crap now and more resembles the GSG non-HK looking guns.
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