Paintball Combat Files Patent Application

06-03-02 -- Paintball Combat has now received confirmation that we are patent pending on our current line of Paintball Landmines. Serial Number 10/142,147.   At this time if you are currently copying our product and have the item fro re-sale then we as that you cease all sales immediately. If at this time you do not and we locate that you are currently copying our product and selling the item we will have no other choice than to take legal action. 

What does this mean having a patent. 

Patents grant an inventor the right to exclude others from producing or using the inventor's discovery or invention for a limited period of time. U.S. patent laws were enacted by Congress under its Constitutional grant of authority to protect the discoveries of inventors. See U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8. The main body of law concerning patents is found in Title 35 of the United States Code. In order to be patented an invention must be novel, useful, and not of an obvious nature. See §§ 101 - 103 of Title 35. Such "utility" patents are issued for four general types of inventions/discoveries: machines, human made products, compositions of matter, and processing methods. See § 101 of Title 35. Changing technology has led to an ever expanding understanding of what constitutes a human made product. Specific additions to the Patent Act provide, in addition, for design and plant patents.

Prior to a recent amendment prompted by the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) accompanying the Uruguay Round GATT, patents were normally issued for a non-renewable period of seventeen years, measured from the date of issuance. See § 154 of Title 35. Under the amended provision (which took effect June 8, 1995) the term will be twenty years measured from the date of application.

Patent infringement cases arise under Federal patent law over which the Federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction. See § 1338(a) of Title 28 of The United States Code.

In 1975 the Patent Cooperation Treaty was incorporated into Title 35. See §§ 351 - 376 of Title 35.

So if you are copying the Paintball Combat Landmine Drop us a line so our legal people can get a hold of you. 

Thanks to everyone who has helped us achieve what we are today!