If we have benefited from our first patent despite a growing number of counterfeiters in the last years (its 20-year long life ended in 2005), our impotency to combat counterfeiting due to the complexity, the cost and especially the exorbitant duration of procedures, gave ideas to the kite brands when the concept of Bow kite was introduced to them.
Many refused to pay, knowing that they would enjoy a virtual impunity, with at least fifteen years of tranquility between the filing of the patent application and a possible court order requiring them to pay royalties.
Several brands even started a procedure at the European Patent Office to invalidate the Bow kite patent. These brands are North, become Duotone, F-one and another that has never deigned to decline its identity, because yes anonymity is possible. What a system!
After 13 years of procedure where all the possible means were used by the opponents of the patent, proving their bad faith, their sole purpose being to find some way to cancel it, and not because they had a legitimate reason to do so, our patent was finally cancelled in Europe in the last appeal they filed.
Yes, you can file a patent application for an invention that revolutionizes the market and it will be refused 13 years later after having spent hundreds of thousands of euros in maintaining and defending your patent against companies which do everything not to pay royalties while they take advantage of your invention to reap significant benefits !
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Many refused to pay, knowing that they would enjoy a virtual impunity, with at least fifteen years of tranquility between the filing of the patent application and a possible court order requiring them to pay royalties.
Several brands even started a procedure at the European Patent Office to invalidate the Bow kite patent. These brands are North, become Duotone, F-one and another that has never deigned to decline its identity, because yes anonymity is possible. What a system!
After 13 years of procedure where all the possible means were used by the opponents of the patent, proving their bad faith, their sole purpose being to find some way to cancel it, and not because they had a legitimate reason to do so, our patent was finally cancelled in Europe in the last appeal they filed.
Yes, you can file a patent application for an invention that revolutionizes the market and it will be refused 13 years later after having spent hundreds of thousands of euros in maintaining and defending your patent against companies which do everything not to pay royalties while they take advantage of your invention to reap significant benefits !
Go into the details of the European Patent Office proceedings then explore the left menu (Event history, All documents...)