Tried emailing their service dept. a few months back about a X3 Xenon light that isn't working and didn't receive a reply. Just getting around to following up and find they went tits up after Surefire sued them over the tailcap design.
So it looks like I can try purchasing a new lamp assembly from an after market supplier or mayber Surefire if they have one that will fit?
Was I the only moron who didn't find out about this in time?
Here is what a quick Google search turned up from Military Times Gear Scout:
<span style="font-weight: bold"> <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <span style="color: #000099"> PentagonLight extinguished by Surefire
November 9th, 2009 | Business News | Posted by Rob Curtis
The site is gone, the phones are disconnected. PentagonLight is no more.
Surefire sued the pants off them in district court back in April 2008. The suit was against Pentagon Scientific Corp’s infringement on Surefire’s lockout tailcap switch patent. Six months later, the court found in their favor. The company bought back some of its inventory from its dealers but never put out a statement about its demise. So, even though it’s old news, there are still people wondering if PentagonLight is really gone. It is.
Instead of re-engineering their product line or negotiating to license Surefire’s tailcap, PentagonLight chose to quietly shut their entire operation down. This is intriguing, since the judgment had no financial component. Surefire didn’t ask for a dime. They just asked that PentagonLight not be permitted to sell the Surefire tailcap.
Why did PentagonLight cut and run? Perhaps it had something to do with the other component of Surefire’s suit that refuted PentagonLight’s “Made in USA” branding. The combined loss of the tailcap and the unwanted attention on the location of their manufacturing revealed flaws in their business model the felt they couldn’t overcome.
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So it looks like I can try purchasing a new lamp assembly from an after market supplier or mayber Surefire if they have one that will fit?
Was I the only moron who didn't find out about this in time?
Here is what a quick Google search turned up from Military Times Gear Scout:
<span style="font-weight: bold"> <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <span style="color: #000099"> PentagonLight extinguished by Surefire
November 9th, 2009 | Business News | Posted by Rob Curtis
The site is gone, the phones are disconnected. PentagonLight is no more.
Surefire sued the pants off them in district court back in April 2008. The suit was against Pentagon Scientific Corp’s infringement on Surefire’s lockout tailcap switch patent. Six months later, the court found in their favor. The company bought back some of its inventory from its dealers but never put out a statement about its demise. So, even though it’s old news, there are still people wondering if PentagonLight is really gone. It is.
Instead of re-engineering their product line or negotiating to license Surefire’s tailcap, PentagonLight chose to quietly shut their entire operation down. This is intriguing, since the judgment had no financial component. Surefire didn’t ask for a dime. They just asked that PentagonLight not be permitted to sell the Surefire tailcap.
Why did PentagonLight cut and run? Perhaps it had something to do with the other component of Surefire’s suit that refuted PentagonLight’s “Made in USA” branding. The combined loss of the tailcap and the unwanted attention on the location of their manufacturing revealed flaws in their business model the felt they couldn’t overcome.
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