Originally Posted by
PaLEOjd
The answer is simple...............Money grab!
Sig just won a major contract and there is a ton of money involved, Stery wants in on that money. If there really was/is a patent issue, that should have been brought to light with the introduction of the P250 BUT the P250 was not near as popular and sought after as the P320........Guess we can all just sit back and see what happens.
I still don't buy that. Glock sued s&w over the Sigma, which has been panned as a barely better than Hi-point POS. If you are in a business, and maybe I look at things a little more viciously, if a competitor is infringing on patent rights it makes sense to try to stop them as soon as you have the opportunity, unless you don't have a solid case. With them going after Sig now, and not with the 250(Which yeah had plenty of issues) and not Beretta with the APX(which may or may not be a huge success Beretta is still a large company with money) or Remington which lets be honest seems to be run by monkeys, but still seems to have good monetary backing in the rear, I just am not seeing logical reason to wait until now to attempt to sue or stop another company from using your idea, or at least send cease and desist or at least something that would have been running in the rumor mill before now, unless it is a situation where perhaps you are looking at risk vs reward that maybe we win and get a pay out because we know the patent may not survive a court battle. TT33 being brought up here. Now, layman out look verse patent perhaps the argument can be made that a hammer verse striker patent is different enough to get it's own idea, the 250 was hammer fired DAO if I remember correctly, so maybe there that. But, if not, the idea and concept has been around for decades at which point Steyr may end up paying Sig before this is all said and done. I just not seeing everything here in the OP being all there if you know what I am saying.
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