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At the risk of repeating myself we need choices when it comes to saftey gear.
It sure would be nice if companys had no competition but thats not the real world.
Leatt may have spent some bucks but does that mean no one else should be able to produce there own brace? When Henry Ford built the first car...do you also think that cause he spent big bucks there shouldnt have been anyone else allowed to build cars?
And to the dude who mentioned the patient Honda had on the front brake line...this situation could more accuratly compared to honda having a patent on the motocross bike. How would it be if all we had was Honda mxers?
Bottom line...leatt is being greedy and it will affect the progress of making these braces better. Instead of sueing others they should focus on making the best brace possible and people will buy their product. Instead of bettering there product they sue and spend there time and money trying to keep others from building quality saftey gear.
We all have our opinion...mine is leatt need to make a better brace rather than sue people!
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Ever see a 1992-2000(01-02?) Suburban or Tahoe driving down the road with one green and one black privacy tinted rear door glasses? GM can't even provide a matching piece of glass for their own vehicles.
These companies need to worry about some of their own in house patent issues before they get too concerned about others.
there are european standards for many pieces of protective apparel, the "icons" stay away from these standards because it will only cost them more money to develop "better" products. customer's lack of knowledge in this area is exactly what the "industry" prefers...
i have heard of leatt's dumping of all distributors once davids video came out, so leatt has about just as much "integrity" as the rest of them.
It would make good business sense for Leatt to have money coming in from A-Stars and others.
There is also good money in simply creating product and selling the patent without ever producing beyond prototype.
btw there is also a pissing contest over the holeshot device.
i can't remember the exact story, but a friend of mine is a rep for TCX (Oxtar) and was when they changed names and told me. i'm an alcoholic though so...
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So if who ever invented the first full face helmet had a patent on it where would we be? I don't know zilch about it, but was just thinking about it..
Leatt not changing their brace may have to do with opening themselves up to a lawsuit. If the product was flawed in design and they make a change, does that open them up to be sued by customers who were hurt while wearing one?
Pantent laws are weird, cause from my understanding you only have to change a minimal amount to an existing product to get your own pantent.
In addition, if they're dirtball lawyers are good enough, they may not have to pay anything!
My understanding is that Leatt are not trying to stop astars or omega or whoever from producing there own brace, they are just trying to get a return from the investment they put into the original research in developing the product, they created the market and the design, astars saw it as a good idea and swopped with there own version. Nothing wrong with that either, but a price has to be paid.
I think this is a positive move, another revenue stream for leat can only help speed up the improvement and design of their product for our benefit, and it may also cause astars themselves to put a bit more effort into there own design process.
The D-Air suit is NOT made for everyday motorcyclists, it is a track suit, working to prevent injuries mostly in high-side and low-side situations. An electronic system using gyro sensors.
Our suit has been commercialized for the 1st time this year, 300 units to start with - Suits are expensive of course because they have to be custom-made (but we have been selling custom-made $3K+ suits for quite a while (yes, we have a good number of customers who can spend that money). The D-Air isn't that expensive in comparison.
Regarding the everyday motorcyclist, our D-Air Street is its final testing mode (used by the Italian police on their Multistrada and BMWs motorcycle since the Giro - Tour of Italy - this year). The D-Air Street is an electronic system too, helping prevent injuries in impact situation against a vehicle or ground.
Did Alpinestars copied our D-Air suit? A system we have been testing for the past 10 years? Maybe they copied the concept, but our systems are very different.The size of the airbag itself, the size of the protected area, are different.
Also, the Leatt brace is nothing like a HANS device!
funny thing is, there is another brace similar to these, defnder, and leatt sued them. but hans hasnt sued leatt.
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