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The closest thing I can think of that relates to this idea of a limitation on commercial use, is with some software, where it is free if used for personal uses, but they want money if you intend to use the software for business purposes. That could be an entirely different deal though, as to...

Thanks, Dave. Also, I recently read a post in another forum in which a guy stated that it is only legal to make your own copy of a patented device if it never gets used for commercial purposes. If he's correct, only a recreational climber could legally make his own HAAS. An arborist charging...

No, not too much. I guess I was just thinking that if Mr. Mumford said that he is completely out of the game of making and selling the SAKA to others, that he might wish to do what he said he was going to do in the first place, which was to freely share his modifications with the community by...

Thanks a lot for this, Dave. I was not aware that that was the case. I wonder if this means that Mr. Mumford could legally re-post his original video of how to make a SAKA as long as he specified that anyone who makes one do it for their own use only. It would be nice if everyone bought the...

I thought that the reason the guy got the patent was to allow anyone to make their own device for their own use, but not for manufacture and sales to others. That way no one company could lock up the use of a good idea. I guess with more expensive devices, like the blocks with a spring-loaded...

Here's a post from TreeBuzz forum in which the guy posting talks about a man who had a good idea for a device for tree work that he wanted to keep "open" to the world. So he actually went to all of the trouble to patent the idea just to prevent others from making money off of it. You could use...