EQUIPPED TO SURVIVE Outdoors Gear, Survival Equipment Review Survival Information The Survival Forum The Survival Forum offers you a place to ask questions about emergency preparedness, survival equipment and outdoors gear. Whether you are experienced or just starting, we welcome you to our community. Equipped. org Blog Equipped to Survive editor Doug Ritters blog provides commentary and thoughts on survival related news stories and events, brief reviews of new gear and news about new survival product introductions. Check in here for the latest and greatest in the world of survival. Crowdfunded Smart Watch PLB Scam or Dangerously Naive As appealing as the idea of an affordable 1. PLB might be, a recently publicized Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign that has garnered a fair amount of press would seem to be either an outright scam or dangerously naive. 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Teks patent claims related to 2 way Satellite Emergency Notification Devices SENDs have been invalidated in a federal court ruling that granted summary judgement to Delorme. Briar. Teks patent claims threatened to strangle expansion and innovation is this increasingly popular distress beacon market. At best, the patent claims would increase the cost of the devices for consumers, which inevitably discourage purchase and their subsequent use to save lives. You can read the whole sordid story and review the Judges ruling here. ACR vs DME SATRO PLB DME Loses Final judgment is in on ACRs lawsuit against DME and its design consultants alleging that they misappropriated ACR trade secrets and documents and incorporated them into DMEs SATRO PLB. In a Stipulated Judgment and Permanent Injunction issued on January 1. DME lost big time. Get all the details on this story and find out why youll never be able to buy a DME SATRO PLB. 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