cbielat
Senior Member
I have not. Filing a law suit =/= winning a law suit. Defending a patent for a roof rack is IMO nearly impossible. I would say it is in fact impossible to defend gobi's patents. The rack patent consists of one claim "The ornamental design for a multi-purpose storage rack for a sport utility vehicle, as shown and described." That basically protects nothing other than the front top bar having a slight rise in it. I'm pretty confident I can find prior art that would predate the GOBI claims. EDIT: 30 seconds of google image search results in dozens of racks on baja trucks that would predate the Gobi claims. It's total nonsense. I would certainly not support anything that has to do with GOBI for being bad actors in this instance.
It's a trolling law suit. In a better world we'd have more Rule 11 sanctions against the attorney who filed a claim on a garbage patent. There's nothing even remotely novel about GOBI's racks. But alas it'll cost a few thousand dollars to tell GOBI to go "f" themselves.
Yeah, I'm not getting into the WM/Gobi thing in this thread but I agree with you. I was just saying it as a joke.









