I have literally been trying to file a third-party preissuance submission with the US Patent Office for 2 hours but their website and phone menus are...
I have literally been trying to file a third-party preissuance submission with the US Patent Office for 2 hours but their website and phone menus are dogshit so I'm giving up. It would have been hilarious if submitting a pdf of vital comments is what got a patent not approved. Anyone got contacts at SRAM? Would be good to at least contact them lol.
I looked into the patent and unfortunately they have you beat by a few months. Provisional was filed in March of 2025. Provisional patents are a...
I looked into the patent and unfortunately they have you beat by a few months. Provisional was filed in March of 2025. Provisional patents are a great way to buy yourself time to fully decide if you want to pursue something while getting a foot legally in the door and not spending a ton of money. It gives you a year to decide if you want to proceed with a full on patent and doesn't have to go through the same review process so pretty much anyone can file one.
Damn, would've been cool. The current application was March of 26 but I didn't see the provisional before that.
Having totaled a bike through knock block when the fork hit the frame, they better have designed a sturdy barrier for those bars.
Lord, I forgot the knockblock times. Wasn't Trek selling that as a way to make the downtube stiffer from it's shape or something? Only place a knockblock belongs is on an ebike and even then battery packaging is getting good enough to where they don't even belong there.
Damn, would've been cool. The current application was March of 26 but I didn't see the provisional before that.
All the bike nerds here pay no attention to the girl in the background, they go straight to the linkage
I've not bothered reading their application, but my guess is that Sram's claims are for a stem which clamps both above and below the upper bearing.
This existed in 2009, and I'm sure there are older examples
Having totaled a bike through knock block when the fork hit the frame, they better have designed a sturdy barrier for those bars.
I do wonder if transition is the new yeti….
Lord, I forgot the knockblock times. Wasn't Trek selling that as a way to make the downtube stiffer from it's shape or something? Only place a knockblock belongs is on an ebike and even then battery packaging is getting good enough to where they don't even belong there.
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