One thing to add is that there are only a handful of patents that were ever used on golf discs; the main Innova "beveled edge disc" patent and the "thumbtrac" patent on Rhynos and Birdies are the most notable. Other manufacturers had to pay a licensing fee to Innova until the patent ran out in 2003. MVP has patents regarding their Gyro technology despite there being many overmolded discs prior to MVP's existence and MVP sort of violates their own patents (in a way) by producing discs with the same plastic (and subsequently density) for both the core and the rim, which is the opposite of Gyro technology states the reason a patent is needed.
Lat64 for a short while around 2018 or so had overmolded discs like the Zion and Bryce. They were actually pretty decent but the rumour was that MVP sent a cease and desist
Whenever I bought a disc I had zero worry about whether or not there was a patent number on the disc, never looked to see if the disc had a patent number. After spending a good part of my career in construction equipment manufacturing (with some patent protection issues) I can see advertising that a product has a certain advantageous feature that has a patent but not to advertise that an item has a patent number on it. I really do not care for companies like Pateck, they are vultures.
Love your channel and Kudos to your graphics team! I've always found the "business of sports" as interesting as sports itself.
One thing to add is that there are only a handful of patents that were ever used on golf discs; the main Innova "beveled edge disc" patent and the "thumbtrac" patent on Rhynos and Birdies are the most notable. Other manufacturers had to pay a licensing fee to Innova until the patent ran out in 2003. MVP has patents regarding their Gyro technology despite there being many overmolded discs prior to MVP's existence and MVP sort of violates their own patents (in a way) by producing discs with the same plastic (and subsequently density) for both the core and the rim, which is the opposite of Gyro technology states the reason a patent is needed.
Lat64 for a short while around 2018 or so had overmolded discs like the Zion and Bryce. They were actually pretty decent but the rumour was that MVP sent a cease and desist
Extremely interesting thank you
Whenever I bought a disc I had zero worry about whether or not there was a patent number on the disc, never looked to see if the disc had a patent number. After spending a good part of my career in construction equipment manufacturing (with some patent protection issues) I can see advertising that a product has a certain advantageous feature that has a patent but not to advertise that an item has a patent number on it. I really do not care for companies like Pateck, they are vultures.
Explains why MVP molds have a website for their patent information on their discs instead of the #