Another lawsuit for us to follow hit the news this week. This time its SAFTI First (O’Keefe’s) taking on 3 companies for infringing on its patented Superlite I-W product. And of the three companies, one is a real doozy… TGP- Technical Glass Products. For most people, TGP is the holy grail of the fire rated material world and while SAFTI First is certainly no slouch, they are not TGP. Its also funnyto see TGP and Pilkington put together in this but as separate defendants as Pilkington works quite a bit of exclusive deals with TGP, so I guess when you play together, you sometimes have to defend together eh? Anyway if SAFTI wins this suit or makes any sort of positive agreement for them, it may tip the scales their way. That said, this one will be interesting to watch, as I expect all three companies named in the lawsuit to defend themselves pretty vigorously and for O’Keefe’s to be just as intense on the other side. Something tells me this won’t be a boring one…. and why is this important? Fire Rated glass is a growing segment and will keep growing based on the technology and the codes, so if TGP and the others get shut down on this product, the ripples will be gigantic.
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-- Wouldn’t it be a kick in the pants if it’s not
-- In the Green note of the week… Can the color of your website background use up more energy? Amazingly there is a movement to push people to a black background because on the older monitors, white backgrounds actually use more energy to show. I can’t wait till we can offer LEED credit for having website with dark backgrounds. Anyway, if you care, the story is HERE.
-- Last, I am a week late here, but if you have a kid in the house between 8 and 14 then you probably have been living with High School Musical mania. The “Grease” of the new generation, this Disney movie has broken record after record. Anyway the reason I bring up, is that both High School Musical movies are good, clean, fun entertainment. And the fact that records are being broken at epic paces proves that there is truly a place for family fare on TV. While I love shows like Entourage that are far from family fare, its just nice to see that shows like High School Musical have a place in our society and we’re not all headed down the path of debauchery.
And now that I got the feel good angle done… YOU MUST WATCH THIS VIDEO… its Miss South
2 comments:
I'm intrigued by Safti's lawsuit re: wire glass b/c I surely wouldn't want to be the guys defending the use of wired glass given all the safety liabilities that come along with this product. If anything I'd be exiting that product line as quickly as possibly b/c I'd hate to see another person injured by it for teh sake of making a few more bucks.
It seems that Pilkington has been making wire glass for much longer then Safti has been in business ... so is the patent infringement claim more about where it's being sold (i.e. North America) vs. Pilkington's manufacture of it?
Something just doesn't seem right here and my first reaction is that the little guy (Safti) is going after "deep pockets" to get as much PR and cash as possible.
Hopefully you'll write more on this topic to help us better understand exactly what the lawsuit is about. Please, do tell...
PS. wire glass is ugly
Thanks for the comment and sorry for the delay in reply. I do comment on this on my latest post. I do agree that the wire is ugly by the way.
The product they are battling over is a fire rated version, so the liability is not there like it is on the regular stuff. The Pilks angle is very interesting though and one to be considered.
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