Revloc Out Of Business

Saw this ontheir website today------

Drussel Wilfley Design / Revloc Motorsports is contemplating a new direction and the foreseeable future will not be supplying motorcycle clutches. Well over a decade of service to the field has provided us with many friends and loyal customers. We thank you all for your continued support. It has been our honor and pleasure being a part of your passion.

Thank our friends at Rekluse for that 1.........It's sad to see.......

Yep. Now you can order a Rekluse. They will tell you 2 weeks, then send it a month later. And what are you gonna do, cause you can't buy it anywhere else anyways...

I'll do what I've been doing all along which is work the clutch with my left index and middle fingers.

So did Rekluse actually have something to do with it (other then competition) or is that an off the cuff comment?

search Drussel Wilfley Design on bing. It shows a bunch of court cases with Rekluse as the plaintiff. I can only assume that it was a patent thing.....

Was the Revloc Dyna ring a patent infringment on the rekluse exp core ? the EXP core has a dyna ring component to it in addition to the clutch basket...

I figured it had to be something like that. Thanks for the information.

Can't really blame Rekluse. When someone copies or infringes on a valid patent that you are producing and developing products with, you have to enforce your title to that patent. Patent law was designed for that exact reason- to give inventors time to develope their ideas and take them to market. When another person or company copies that design or parts of it, it can be very harmful to the patent holder. If Revloc was copying the Rekluse patents, then they got what was coming to them..........
Where the system goes wrong is when trolls hold broad and poorly worded patents(usually improperly granted in the first place), don't produce a damn thing, or even intend to, and sue everyone else for trying to develope and market genuinely good ideas(a 'legalized' form of extortion). A good example of this is when NTP sued RIM and won despite their patents being ruled invalid before the final decision, the judge commited gross ethical & bias errors and almost every genuine expert testified in favor of RIM. That one cost RIM $612 million even though they were effectively exonerated. The judge should have been tossed from the bench and disbarred after that one.
The only way a person or company can legally infringe on a patent is if they can prove and demonstate 'prior art', which means they had been using the design or idea before someone else patented it. Not the case for Revloc.