Originally Posted by
Peter Christensen
Keep in mind that Mr. Bosch like the other companies wanted nothing to do with blade brakes until they were sued and lost because a worker on a job site using one of their saws without guards sustained severe hand injuries. Mr. Bosch was put in a position of having to make saws with a brake or be seen as negligent when the next accident with their saws happened and they had done nothing knowing the saws could be dangerous. They were just forced into covering their behinds. They are sold here in Canada for a couple hundred more than the same SawStop sized one, unchallenged by SawStop, but that could be due to the much smaller market here or perhaps because our laws are different.
Patents can only be asserted in the country of their issue. That is, if you want protection in Canada, you have to get a Canadian patent. Same with every other country - I don't know how the EU works now, maybe you can get an EU patent and it will cover all the EU countries. When I was working, we would only get a patent in a limited number of countries because of the cost of each patent. So, USA for sure. Maybe England, Germany and France for a valuable patent. Most of the time we would not get a Canadian patent - too small of a market.
SawStop may not have Canadian patents.
Mike
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