Shrug... I'm not sure if it's legal, but if it's a legitimate new idea you can patent it whether you intend to produce it or not... I think... Maybe they just chose one of their hundreds of patents they decided not to persue productionwise and use that as a decoy? I'm probably way off and will be eating my words monday when it's a scooter, but I can hope it's something else
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Originally posted by gniticxe
I'm not at all trying to be rude, nor trying to appear to have vast legal knowledge, but is it legal to make "decoy patents?" It is my understanding that that would defeat the purpose of a patent. I would think they would need at least one real patent, which would presumably be one of the several submitted.
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