Among the ways to be destroyed in the arms business, intellectual property does not usually come to mind. Yet that is the prospect that one small company, XTech Tactical, faces today. A few months ago, the Arizona-based distributor of rifle accessories was hit with an IP infringement lawsuit brought by Century International Arms, one of the largest rifle importers in the country. The trademark IP that XTech allegedly stole? An ordinary crisscross pattern, similar in appearance to a waffle, embossed on the sides of a standard AK-47 magazine.
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