CCH's patent was up for their Alien cam design as of May 23 2009 (or maybe earlier; someone mentioned that patents before 1994 had only a 17 year duration but I'm not sure about that). After seeing how quickly DMM jumped at producing their Dragon Cams (quite obviously based off the recently-expired BD C4 patent), I'm curious if someone will step up and remake the Alien. Maybe this time with better quality control... Is there a metallurgical engineer in the house?
See US patent #4832289 at:
http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=4832289.PN.&OS=pn/4832289&RS=PN/4832289
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Aliens' patent has expired
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Aliens' patent has expired
by mick » Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:53 pm
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Re: Aliens' patent has expired
by *Chris* » Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:42 pm
The owner/inventor of that company has also just passed away. Perhaps his heirs will be less interested in running the business.
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Re: Aliens' patent has expired
by Matt Peck » Thu Oct 15, 2009 3:26 pm
Did he/she take a whipper on one of their cams? 
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Re: Aliens' patent has expired
by chossmonkey » Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:14 pm
It was a short illness of some sort.Matt Peck wrote:Did he/she take a whipper on one of their cams?
I could see the design being sold to another company.
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