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Old 09-09-21, 05:27 AM
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Originally Posted by 79pmooney
And early '80s, reading that Cannondale claimed to have come up with the fat aluminum tube concept - naw. I rode the proof that wasn't true 5 years before.
From this page:

'Klein sued Cannondale (and Charlie Cunningham) for breach of his '77 patent for a fat tubed, "high-efficiency" bike frame and lost. Cannondale cited frames made by Bill Shook (American Classic), Harlan Meyer (Hi-E), and Roger Durham (Bullseye) as prior art evidence. Klein appealed and lost again on the grounds that he had conveniently failed to mention these previous builders (and also all the other students in the team which had made aluminum frames in the MIT class he attended in 1974) in his 1977 patent application.'

Some details of the court case can be read here.
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