Can the cases be reused or recycled?
Why didn't they try caseless again? By now H&Ks patents are over.
I googled ammo patents and ran into the article below.
It looks like ammo is a 17 year patent. Patent official in 2010, expiring in 2027.
[FONT=&]U.S. loses patent suit, owes ammo maker $15M
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[FONT=&][FONT=var(--atype-theme-body-font]The U.S. government will pay a Florida ammunition-maker more than $15.6 million after losing a patent-infringement lawsuit regarding the design of M855A1 and M80A1 rounds.[/FONT]
Liberty Ammunition also will receive royalties of 1.4 cents per round on that ammunition until the patent expires in 2027, according to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruling, issued in late December and first reported in the Bradenton (Fla.) Herald. That could mean several millions more in payout: The government, primarily the Army, ordered more than 158 million of the M855A1 rounds in fiscal 2013, the lawsuit states, and Army budget documents show plans to purchase at least 65 million M855A1 rounds of various types in fiscal 2015.
[FONT=var(--atype-theme-body-font]The government is "considering its options on appeal," Justice Department spokeswoman Nicole Navas said in an email. Army public affairs personnel would not comment, citing pending litigation.[/FONT]
[FONT=var(--atype-theme-body-font]"We're very satisfied with the judgment," George Phillips, Liberty's chief executive officer, said Wednesday. "The [court] upheld our contention that the government had violated our patent ... and PJ Marx, our inventor and founder, is now acknowledged as the inventor of enhanced-performance-round technology.[/FONT]
[FONT=var(--atype-theme-body-font]Marx, an established inventor in the music industry who began pursuing a better bullet after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, first spoke with Army officials about his Enhanced Performance Incapacitative Composite round in 2004, the ruling states. Marx filed a patent application on the EPIC round in 2005 which five years later became Patent No. 7,748,325, the patent at the heart of the lawsuit.
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army...maker-15m/
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Why didn't they try caseless again? By now H&Ks patents are over.
I googled ammo patents and ran into the article below.
It looks like ammo is a 17 year patent. Patent official in 2010, expiring in 2027.
[FONT=&]U.S. loses patent suit, owes ammo maker $15M
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[FONT=&][FONT=var(--atype-theme-primary-font]Kevin Lilley
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[FONT=&][FONT=var(--atype-theme-body-font]The U.S. government will pay a Florida ammunition-maker more than $15.6 million after losing a patent-infringement lawsuit regarding the design of M855A1 and M80A1 rounds.[/FONT]
Liberty Ammunition also will receive royalties of 1.4 cents per round on that ammunition until the patent expires in 2027, according to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruling, issued in late December and first reported in the Bradenton (Fla.) Herald. That could mean several millions more in payout: The government, primarily the Army, ordered more than 158 million of the M855A1 rounds in fiscal 2013, the lawsuit states, and Army budget documents show plans to purchase at least 65 million M855A1 rounds of various types in fiscal 2015.
[FONT=var(--atype-theme-body-font]The government is "considering its options on appeal," Justice Department spokeswoman Nicole Navas said in an email. Army public affairs personnel would not comment, citing pending litigation.[/FONT]
[FONT=var(--atype-theme-body-font]"We're very satisfied with the judgment," George Phillips, Liberty's chief executive officer, said Wednesday. "The [court] upheld our contention that the government had violated our patent ... and PJ Marx, our inventor and founder, is now acknowledged as the inventor of enhanced-performance-round technology.[/FONT]
[FONT=var(--atype-theme-body-font]Marx, an established inventor in the music industry who began pursuing a better bullet after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, first spoke with Army officials about his Enhanced Performance Incapacitative Composite round in 2004, the ruling states. Marx filed a patent application on the EPIC round in 2005 which five years later became Patent No. 7,748,325, the patent at the heart of the lawsuit.
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army...maker-15m/
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