[jgannon]

Originally Posted by Ken Leung

Are these orbit balls patented?

Ken, the Orbit Ball is just a plastic version of a Greek paper football, so I'm willing to venture that even if the Orbit Ball was patented, it'd never be enforceable.

Thanks to the Thunderbots for making these available. We purchased a kit, had a devil of a time figuring out how to put them together, but ended up with ten crude approximations of Orbit Balls that made it possible for us to test our design when we weren't lucky enough to snag more than one real ball from Walmart.