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Been waiting to pick up a neck brace. I like the "Stay off of the spine" design and wanted to see if this thing is legit.
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ATLAS BRACE AWARDED CE CERTIFICATION
Press release: Atlas Brace Technologies is please to announce that after being subjected to 3rd party testing, the Atlas Brace is now CE certified to meet the following European standards:
89/686/EEC - Personal Protective Equipment Directive.
EN 1621-2 :2003 - Motorcyclists’ back protectors against mechanical impact.
EN 340:2003 - General requirements of protective clothing.
me-int 074-00 - Ergonomics/Tensile strength.
CE Marking on a product is a manufacturer's declaration that the product complies with the essential requirements of the relevant European health, safety and environmental protection legislation, in practice by many of the so-called product directives.
Atlas Brace Technologies is based in Surrey, British Columbia Canada. Founded in 2011, Atlas is the home of the first racer designed, racer tested next generation neck brace, the Atlas Brace. The Atlas Brace™ was uniquely designed and engineered to be only of the highest level of safety, comfort, mobility, and forward thinking ideas... For more information on the Atlas Brace, please visit www.atlasbrace.com.
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Do they already have DOT cert? Do they do DOT for neck braces?
Any reviews besides MXA?
Anyone have one?
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Leatt sues Atlas for infringement on two neck brace patents
Published on January 31, 2012 at 5:37 AM · No Comments
Leatt Corporation (OTC: LEAT.PK) ("Leatt" or the "Company"), a global developer, marketer and the distributor of the Leatt-Brace®, a neck brace system designed to help prevent potentially devastating injuries to the cervical spine (neck) for helmeted sports, announced today that the Company has sued Atlas Brace Technologies US, LLC ("Atlas") for infringement on two of the Company's neck brace patents.
Leatt is the exclusive licensee of certain patents, manufacturing, sale, use and distribution rights held by Xceed Holdings CC ("Xceed"), a South African company owned by Leatt's founder, Dr. Christopher Leatt, including the patents to the Leatt-Brace®. On October 21, 2011, the Company sent a letter to Atlas' subsidiary notifying them that certain models of Atlas' neck braces infringe on the Company's patents, demanding that Atlas cease and desist the manufacture, use, offer and sale of such products. Instead of complying with the Company's request, on or about December 1, 2011, Atlas brought suit against the Company in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California seeking a declaration that Atlas does not infringe on the Leatt neck brace patents. On January 18, 2012, the Company filed an Answer and Counterclaim with the Court, denying Atlas' claims and countersuing Atlas (with Xceed) for patent infringement of the Leatt neck brace patents. The Company is also seeking injunctive relief, damages for Atlas' willful infringement of the Leatt neck brace patents, and attorneys' fees.
Sean Macdonald, the Chief Executive Officer of Leatt Corporation, remarked "we are disturbed by Atlas' filing of this action in response to our initial letter and by their continued infringement on our patents. We will take all necessary action to vigorously prosecute and enforce Leatt's intellectual property rights which protect the product internationally."
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lol !!
http://www.thumpertalk.com/topic/958098-atlas-neck-brace/page__st__20
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I just wish there was a moral exception for safety gear/devices.
Like the "why are high-end helmets so expensive" discussion attributed some of the higher cost to patents and patent protecting.
It pretty much prevents any one product from being the BEST in terms of safety.
I personally feel some of these plastic neck brace companies are focused on 80% marketing and 20% safety anyway.
If everyone were allowed to simply reverse engineer someone else's work, then there would be no reason for inventors to spend the money on research to create a new product. I repeat: Leatt made a product where there was none. You can't blame someone for protecting their investment (well, I guess you can if you think he's an asshole, but I think you're incorrect in placing that blame myself).
Another example of this was the Hans and Hutchens Devices for auto racing: they are two distinct designs that tried to accomplish the same thing. Unlike the Hutchens, the Defender restraint was sued by Hans - Google them and look at their designs. They should be sued: they are copying the design. No one should be outraged that Hans and Leatt are protecting themselves legally against infringing designs. Without them, many racers would have died or been in chairs.
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And conversely if they do such a lousy job why are people copying them?
They created their own system to transfer the force, a system that is being used as a base for other companies.
You could argue the same about all of them as to how they work.
As Gibby said it isn't a unique situation, happens in business all the time.
We have a winner!
I can see why people are upset about others not being able to evolve Leatt's design. It would be best for us if they could. But the market is designed to protect the inventor - for a period of time. The system wouldn't work otherwise.
It is estimated to cost about one billion dollars to develop any new drug. Once developed, some random company can reverse engineer the molecule, add a methyl group to it and call it "improved" for less than a million dollars. If that happened, would you fault the original company for suing the second and claim that they should just evolve their drug to be better than the copy? If that were legally allowed to happen, do you think we'd have new drugs hitting the market?
And to address your final question I would like to pose another rhetorical question. Do you think anyone does anything other than for financial gain?
And, no, I don't think anyone does anything other than for financial gain. That's the entire point of capitalism, and that's why the system is designed the way it is.
I guess we generally agree, however, that IP has a place and purpose. I certainly don't agree with all the details of IP law and I'll bet we could find common ground to complain about that over a beer.
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