[TR] tiny little tenax

[pethier at comcast.net]

I think you can go ahead and make them in the USA.  Patent is probably not an issue.

What I suppose that you CAN'T do is use the "Tenax" name.  Copyright and trademark laws are different from patents.

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----- "Randall" <tr3driver at ca.rr.com> wrote:

> From: "Randall" <tr3driver at ca.rr.com>
> To: Loumetelko at aol.com, triumphs at autox.team.net
> Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 11:15:08 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: Re: [TR] tiny little tenax
>
> > Tenax told them no and if you do we  
> > will come after you because of patent rights 
> 
> You might want to check with a patent lawyer, Lou.  As I understand
> it, US
> patent law cannot be used to make an invention unavailable.  That is
> to say,
> the patent holder must either make and sell the product himself, or
> allow
> someone else to make it (for a reasonable royalty, of course).  Their
> remedy
> in court may be limited to having the court assign a reasonable
> royalty.
> 
> There is also the detail that a patent expires after 20 years ... a
> product
> offered for sale over 50 years ago is almost certainly not protected
> by
> patent today.
> 
> Randall