Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27306930-20161007045648/@comment-27306930-20161008214900

Oh yeah, Big, it's totally a patent infringement. But here's the thing, Hasbro doesn't patent each and every blaster because it's a long expensive process. I'm not even sure they have a utility patent anymore, otherwise there wouldn't be any other dart blaster manufacturers. Ya follow ? I'm guessing that any patent they may have had is past its 20 year expiration date.

But more importantly, there's almost nothing companies can do about foreign patent infringement. Afterall, there's a British patent office, a Romanian patent office, a Chinese patent office, a Russian patent office, etc, etc, etc. Anyone in their native country can file a patent, whether their thing is patented in another country, or not.

And to sue them, you have to go to the patent infringer's home country. So in this case, Hasbro would have to sue Blaze Eva in China. Good luck with that.

Sorry for being wordy BigS, but hopefully you understand the challenges now. It truly is a global problem now.