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what patents?
Posted by James [Email] (more from James) on Wed, 8 Feb 2012 06:00:17
In Reply to: When do the c900 Patents expire?, ZAAB
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, Wed, 8 Feb 2012 04:43:06
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any patents for the c900 are almost certainly already public domain.
but in terms of selling a c900 today... while I'd love to see it too, it's not going to happen... too much technology has changed in that time, especially wrt safety, emissions, etc (the c900 is really safe for what it is, but it doesn't come equipped with some mandatory items)... sure some of that could be re-engineered, but would it be marketable? someone's got to get paid to do the work, so the car has to sell...
otoh, I think it would be very cool if the full design documents were made public for owners of c900's... that would be really nice in the long term (eg if we need to get things machined, or develop work-around parts for things that are NLA)... again, probably won't happen, but would be cool if it did...
James...
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