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Mechanism for securing eye protector to helmet

This is a corporate patent, not an individual patent. Why did I select it? To the corporation it very may be worthwhile to have gotten, not because it prevents competition but because it may reduce the likelihood of frivolous lawsuits by others with similar patents. But study it a minute. Look at how detailed the claims are. They include a bolt a washer and a nut plus various other parts. Can you see easy ways to work around the claim? It should be trivial for even the most junior of product developers..

If the patent had been gotten by an independent inventor would they be able to interest the firm in paying a royalty for the privilege of making and selling this version of a positionalble helmet mounted eye-protector? It is highly doubtful and especially if the firm is already engaged in making equivalent devices for which they will not owe a royalty and for which tooling and various other development costs are already sunk costs instead of the future costs they would be for converting over to this version.

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