A business which holds patents is able to protect itself from financial
harm from competitors if it can demonstrate that a competitor is
infringing upon its patent.
An individual is free to make, for his own use, a thing which is
patented by a company without fear of being sued by the patent holder.
Anyone who chases DX on the low bands and who wishes to homebrew a
product produced by anyone, may do so.
Keep in mind that anyone may sue anyone over just about anything.
Filing a lawsuit is not a win.
Dave Heil K8MN
On 12/28/2010 17 19, Cecil Acuff wrote:
> PDS Electronics Inc. or more commonly know as DX Engineering or more
> commonly known as W8JI. (all in the public domain) I guess Tom feels Lee's
> product design is a copy of his product design marketed through DX
> Engineering.
>
> Lee's is significantly different in that it uses Hi Impedance amplifiers at
> the antennas that usually eliminates the need for ground radials and helps
> improve the performance bandwidth.
>
> Ultimately I guess this will be a battle between Array Solutions and DX
> Engineering but the root is as mentioned above is my guess.
>
> Hard to guess the outcome...problem is someone always gets hurt in these
> kind of things.
>
> I wish them both the best and hope a solution that will benefit the Amateur
> Radio community will result.
>
> Cecil Acuff
> K5DL
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