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Why did KEE buy Smart Parts’ patent portfolio?

Posted by  on 31 March 2011, 2:56 am

Propaintball.com has received an email announcing KEE to have purchased the Smat Parts patent portfolio in its entirety. The brief email did not offer much insight to what KEE aims to do with the acquired immaterial property rights, but after the fall of Smart Parts the speculation around the company remains has been vivid to say the least. First off, the entire bankruptcy proceeding was a long-running “solid” rumor and finally materialized after the 2009 World cup.

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Philadelphia Americans’ destiny confirmed

Posted by  on 3 February 2010, 10:14 am

ProPaintball.com has received short comments directly from Adam Gardner confirming the fact that the Philadelphia Americans will not be competing as a professional team in 2010. The legendary team of 20 years has always been the factory team for Smart Parts, and with their inability to support the team there is little else to do. With the team  ownership being directly tied to the Smart Parts and the Gardners, finding other sponsorship would be difficult and a “loss of face” in a way.

In the same ProPaintball.com news article, Darryl Trent of DLX Technology made a comforting promise that the Americans would return in 2011. I really do hope to see the legendary team return.

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Smart Parts Europe taken over by Maxs Sport and Paint Xtreme

Posted by  on 2 February 2010, 3:47 pm

Smart Parts’ European functions that were located in GB have been jointly acquired by German distributors MAXS Sports and Paint Xtreme. The press release was released already Jan 25th, 2010.  Even though  Smart Parts has not released any information on continuing operations after the announced ”temporary closing” that was supposed to last only for January, the press release has a clear orientation for the future. We will see what will come out of this as we progress further into 2010.

Read the entire press release from below:

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DLX Technologies’ saga continues

Posted by  on 6 January 2010, 11:15 am

Darryl Trent from DLX technologies has posted a press release on propaintball.com with information on the season 2010 and DLX Technology / Luxe markers. The short press release has two significant implications. First, it is the first (?) to officially admit that Smart Parts is restructuring with a financial institution in play. The second key point is that the DLX seems to be the cash-cow for SP and possibly be the last to be cut if necessary – or that is at least the tone of the release.

Read the release on ProPaintball.com HERE.

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Smart Parts situation clarified by Richmond Italia

Posted by  on 15 December 2009, 2:36 pm

On Monday’s VFTD post Baca Loco pointed his readers to a very, very interesting interview of Richmond Italia and Tom Cole (GI Milsim and Kingman, respectively) by Blast Radius Woodsball Podcast. The 1hr 15minute podcast is an extremely educational bit on a lot of the controversy surrounding the .50 cal and the rest of the most debated issues of recent months. One of the major statements that can be extracted from the interview is Richmond Italia’s clarification of the state of Smart Parts.

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No more Smart Parts?

Posted by  on 12 October 2009, 12:56 am

Looks like the buzz has increased in World Cup about Smart Parts beings in heavy financial difficulties. Among the industry it hasnt been a secret in a while but I’m sure there will be alot of updates to that story after World Cup.

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