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    Posted: 03-Feb-2011 at 6:48am
Which armours don't infringe upon patents held by Tony Stark?
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All of them. Stark never patented his armor, because patenting means there's a perfect blueprint of his top-secret Iron Man designs sitting in the patent office. That was part of the story behind Armor Wars: Tony had to go vigilante justice on other armor wearers (including SHIELD and the Vault) because he didn't HAVE a legal recourse against them...he never patented his technology.
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Posts: 2495 		  Quote EvilMonkeyPope Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03-Feb-2011 at 3:41pm
Ok, but which armours would he have no grounds for going vigilante on since they weren't based off his technology?
Did his competitors ever patent derivative armours since he had no legal protection for the underlying tech?
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It'd be easier just to say which armors WERE based on his technology: Spymaster's stolen tech was applied to Force, Stilt-Man, Mauler, Beetle, Controller, Titanium Man, Crimson Dynamo, the Raiders, the Mandroids, the Guardsmen, and Firepower.
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And recently the current Titanium Man was given blueprints for even newer StarkTech to upgrade his suit.

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If Forge used his powers to design an armour from scratch, would it end up being indistinguishable from Stark's tech?
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Uh, no -- that's like asking if someone built a car from scratch, wouldn't it be indistinguishable from a 2011 Hyundai Genesis. There are any number of ways, possibly infinite ways, that an armor could be high-tech and yet distinguishable from Stark technology.
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Originally posted by Monolith

That was part of the story behind Armor Wars: Tony had to go vigilante justice on other armor wearers (including SHIELD and the Vault) because he didn't HAVE a legal recourse against them...he never patented his technology.


I never paid attention to Armor Wars, but wouldn't that itself be an illegal recourse?  I mean, you don't get to beat people up because they decided to reverse-engineer open source tech.
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Very true. Which is probably why the Armor Wars involved Iron Man getting "fired" from Stark Industries, kicked out of the Avengers, permanently ruining his friendship with Steve Rogers, hunted by the U.S. government, becoming an international fugitive, and ultimately "dying" in battle with Firepower so that Stark could claim he hired a "new" bodyguard to replace the original man in the Iron Man suit.
 
So...yeah.
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But he did get a brand new Chevy Camaro.  So that's something.
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