{"id":154,"date":"2013-09-22T18:54:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T23:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2013-09-27T19:36:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T00:36:34","slug":"week-38-2013-a-different-kind-of-patent-trolling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Week 38, 2013 – A Different Kind of Patent Trolling"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my many hobbies is collecting airsoft guns. \u00a0Given that I am exceedingly\u00a0poor<\/em>, I have taken great interest in making<\/em> airsoft guns and accessories. \u00a0Electric guns are easy, everyone knows how they work. \u00a0Gas guns are…not so easy. \u00a0I mean, the general how is fairly easy to understand, but the mechanical details and the way valves and stuff go together… \u00a0So I did a lot of digging for information, and that’s when I stumbled upon a patent, as well as the whole ‘Google Patents’ sub-site.<\/p>\n

Once I figured out how to search right, my brain’s knack for retaining seemingly pointless trivia whether I want it to or not came in very handy. \u00a0For instance, a lot of Taiwanese and Hong Kong airsoft company names are seldom given as anything other than acronyms… But the full names\u2014 which over the years I have occasionally come across\u00a0\u2014are what’s on the patent applications.<\/p>\n

Examples: ICS = I Chih Shivan Enterprise Co., Ltd.<\/em> and HFC =\u00a0 Ho Feng Industry Co., Ltd.<\/em><\/p>\n

And of course the Japanese companies like Western Arms have all sorts of patents<\/a>. \u00a0And all these applications have mechanical drawings. \u00a0Not dimensioned or anything, but I get the idea of what’s going on.<\/p>\n

Here’s some interesting patents:
\nIn-Magazine Pressure Reduction Valve<\/a> (For 12g CO2 cartridges)
\n12g CO2 Cartridge Gas Gun Magazine<\/a>\u00a0(HFC’s patent)
\nICS’s design for 40mm BB shower grenades<\/a> (Not as nice as Madbull’s!)
\nThe Firing and Rotary Magazine Assembly<\/a> for ICS’s Rotary Launcher<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my many hobbies is collecting airsoft guns. \u00a0Given that I am exceedingly\u00a0poor, I have taken great interest in making airsoft guns and accessories. \u00a0Electric guns are easy, everyone knows how they work. \u00a0Gas guns are…not so easy. \u00a0I mean, the general how is fairly easy to understand, but the mechanical details and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[30,18],"wf_post_folders":[79],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-status-report","tag-design","tag-resources"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NlLW-2u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwf_post_folders&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}