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https://www.givesendgo.com/hoffmantactical
Hoffman, the creator of the Super Safety and massive inspiration for all the various reset triggers that have followed (ARC, Atrius, AZ, etc) was sued by Rare Breed claiming they infringe on their patents. Judge granted a preliminary injunction, so now they can’t earn money to pay for their defense.
Even if you don’t use the original SS, if you use ANY reset trigger this will set the precedent on whether your favorite trigger company dies or not.
Note: this is from the Subreddit /r/SuperSafety but i share the same sentiments.
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Fuck rare breed, also didn’t he open source it?
He released it public domain, but in the wrong way, Hoffman isn’t a fan of patents. He should have released it under Creative Commons so it couldn’t be patented.
Did someone steal his patent?
Yes, TwinBros patented it and then sold the patent to RareGreed. Fuck both of them.
That does make hoffman look kind of stupid
A CC license would make no difference. Patents are granted to whomever can convince the USPTO that they had the idea first. In this case, Twin Bros was able to do that. As a result, the release by Hoffman - regardless of the license - can be challenged as an infringement of that patent. Twin Bros claim may be a total fabrication, but that’s the thing normies fail to understand: the legal system isn’t about being “right”, it’s about being “convincing”.
The only practical way Hoffman could have protected himself in this situation is file for a patent before disclosing the invention. No matter how much one hates the US patent system (and it is really broken in a lot of ways), it is the law and other people are going to use/abuse it. If you don’t leverage the system’s protections, they will be used against you.
Hoffman is not being sued under the Twin Bros patent.
Not yet. RBT would really like to get a ruling that SS infringes on 12,038,247 and/or 12,031,784 since the validity of those patents is a lot less questionable. But the technical justification for SS violating those claims is weak (I’m a bit surprised they won the injunction). If that case goes south, they’ll most certainly amend the complaint (or file a new one to increase cost to the defense) to include the Twin Bros patent.
That aside, if Hoffman had been granted the SS patent instead of Twin Bros, he’d be in a much stronger position since this would now be a patent invalidation challenge - which is typically harder to win than a simple infringement challenge.
