MountainGoat Gear website

**Allsop** · 11-17-2018, 07:37

Hi. A while back I purchased some snakeskins from MountainGoat Gear. The website I previously used was Outdoortrailgear.com but it doesn’t seem to work for me now. Does anyone know if there is a new website for this store?

Thanks

**Snaps** · 11-17-2018, 09:29

You can email: [email protected]

**OCDave** · 11-17-2018, 12:47

Originally Posted by IRONFISH45

Just for what it is worth-- "Snakeskins" is a registed Trademark Name belonging to Tom Hennessy. Tom Hennessy has sued over the use of his trade mark name being used on other companies merchandise. Snakeskins are a Hennessy product, not a generic name for a tube for tarp and/or hammock securment.

Klennex- tissue
Q-tip- swab
Bandaid- the list goes on.

Mountaingoat sells sleeves so she's in the clear. What the general public calls her product cannot be legislated or litigated.

**LuvmyBonnet** · 11-17-2018, 19:23

She sells Darn Good Sleeves Too!!!

**Gravity** · 11-17-2018, 21:15

then call them snake skins and problem solved.
don't think anyone can have a registered trademark to the word 'snake' or the word 'skin', or even to the word sequence snake skin.
and maybe tell hennessy that every time he makes a hammock he should pay royalties to the descendants of the native Mesoamerican people since they have the earliest documented used of hammocks.

**GilligansWorld** · 11-17-2018, 21:58

Originally Posted by Gravity

then call them snake skins and problem solved.
don't think anyone can have a registered trademark to the word 'snake' or the word 'skin', or even to the word sequence snake skin.
and maybe tell hennessy that every time he makes a hammock he should pay royalties to the descendants of the native Mesoamerican people since they have the earliest documented used of hammocks.

Take a peek at this thread - Hennesey wasn't messin around - he tried to "box out the market" by patenting a lot of stuff that had already "been invented" - funny deal now but he wasn't messin around back then

https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/...+patent+search

**unwordedly** · 11-18-2018, 13:05

That's an interesting historical post on patents!

I'm very curious how the structural ridgeline patent played out. Obviously Hennessy isn't the only manufacturer to feature them now. Did someone challenge Tom's patent? Or was it more indirectly skirted around?

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**GilligansWorld** · 11-18-2018, 13:16

Originally Posted by unwordedly

That's an interesting historical post on patents!

I'm very curious how the structural ridgeline patent played out. Obviously Hennessy isn't the only manufacturer to feature them now. Did someone challenge Tom's patent? Or was it more indirectly skirted around?

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I'm the wrong guy to ask. I don't think I've been around long enough on this site as I was only a member as of 2016. In the little bit that I was able to read up on it, it would appear as though an individual who feels they have been slighted would have to sue Hennessy. It sounds like the patent office is overworked and they are relying on the submittal process and the patent attorneys doing proper investigation and research into prior or pre-existing patents. if you do not do due diligence I doubt the patent office will catch it and so the patent office is relying on our court system and then on companies sueing and having the court system sort everything out.

again I don't think I'm the right person to ask but it was very interesting to see how this played out in the earky to mid-2000s.

there was quite a dust-up on this forum as well as in the legal arena if I recall correctly.

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**Alamosa** · 11-18-2018, 13:55

I realize this has gone completely off-topic. But just be aware that as of 2013, the US is now on the First-to-File basis of patents (with some grace period for inventor's disclosure). Basically the patent process is saying, in my opinion, it is more important to do the paperwork than do the discovery work.