boobear
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Apr 7, 2019 0:55:16 GMT
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Post by boobear on Apr 8, 2019 0:52:25 GMT
Sizzix is currently suing many of the smaller companies which also make thin dies. That has the potential of driving those smaller companies out of business. The financial costs of the lawsuits could destroy the smaller companies, and many of the companies that we love may disappear. Based on everything I was able to read about it, Sizzix seems to have taken advantage of a legal vacuum and are now using it and the courts to beat down their competition. If you haven't heard or read about it, the Sizzix lawsuit discussion is on the stamping board here. Sizzix won't get a dime more of my money, no matter how cool Tim's new products are. I just heard about this! They have had the patent on their dies since 2011. Why sue now?
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scrapnnana
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Jun 29, 2014 18:58:47 GMT
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Post by scrapnnana on Apr 8, 2019 5:26:10 GMT
Sizzix is currently suing many of the smaller companies which also make thin dies. That has the potential of driving those smaller companies out of business. The financial costs of the lawsuits could destroy the smaller companies, and many of the companies that we love may disappear. Based on everything I was able to read about it, Sizzix seems to have taken advantage of a legal vacuum and are now using it and the courts to beat down their competition. If you haven't heard or read about it, the Sizzix lawsuit discussion is on the stamping board here. Sizzix won't get a dime more of my money, no matter how cool Tim's new products are. I just heard about this! They have had the patent on their dies since 2011. Why sue now? They claimed that they were only made aware recently of the "patent violations" by the other companies. And while they filed for the patent in 2011, they did NOT invent the thin dies, they modified them. That is called a derivative work in copyright law. Not sure if it is the same term in patent law, but a derivative work requires the permission of the inventer/creator. Since Spellbinders (who invented thin dies) lost their patent, it created a legal vacuum, which Sizzix took advantage of. However, since they did not actually invent the dies, that patent is being challenged in court by at least one of the companies being sued, or so I gathered from the posted article. Someone else said that Sizzix was recently put under new management or something. If so, that could be the reason they suddenly decided to sue. Lawsuits do not win customers, however. It tends to alienate them. Sizzix seems to have ignored or forgotten that little fact.
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