Flutterby™! : Patents and airplanes 2002-03-15 18:45:45+01

Patents and airplanes

2002-03-15 18:45:45+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

While we're on the aviation thread, an interesting twist where owners of Lake Amphibian aircraft will be forced to pay patent fees for a required Airworthiness Directive, there are some interesting confusions because some of them had a third party fix the aircraft, but since Lake Aircraft has now sold the patent rights to Enpat, Lake is now claiming it can't do anything. Lock-in isn't just a software thing, hardware companies can lock you in to buying only their fixes for their earlier mistakes.

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