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Err, Smart Parts.
Smart Parts was able to put another company in their pocket. This time it’s little ol’ board-maker Tadao.
Usually, they go after gun companies for all their fancy/bullshit patents they have on electronic paintball guns, like the fact that they have a switch. Going after just a board-maker was probably a fresh change […]

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Aha, there is news. I knew it.
Indian Creek Design, ICD, the company that made mediocre guns like the Freestyle, Promaster, BKO, and the B2K, is now getting out of the paintball business. And since they didn’t have any business but paintball business, it means they’re going out of business.
Vaporworks, a company that makes custom […]

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We had this story 5 days ago, but now the NPPL is announcing that PB2X magazine has been bought by Pacific Paintball who also happen to own them.
No new information has been released really, and I don’t really feel like typing up a lot for this, so here’s the whole press release.
Pacific Paintball is pleased […]

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Smart Parts and KEE Action Sports settled a suit brought on by Smart Parts which accused KEE of infringing on patents 5,881,707, 5,967,133 6,035,843, 6,474,326, 6,637,421, and 7,100,593. The settlement included a royalty-bearing license for KEE to produce electronic markers, KEE having to stop production on insert barrel kits, namely the Empire Revolver, and KEE […]

Filed under: Kee Action Sports, Legal Issues, Smart Parts by James
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