Kryptonite change

At last ...

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Dear Kryptonite Customer:

Thank you for registering for the Kryptonite Lock Exchange Program.

You will soon receive an e-mail with instructions about how and where to
return your current lock and at least one working key for the lock. A
Postage Paid Label will be included in this e-mail.

Once we have received your tubular cylinder lock and key(s), and stock is
available, your replacement lock will be shipped. We are expecting to begin
shipping out non-tubular cylinder locks beginning Mid October.

We are working day and night to get the new non-tubular cylinder Kryptonite
locks manufactured and available to ship to you. If you have any questions,
please call Customer Service at (800) 729-5625.

Your security is our priority. Thank you for your patience.

Kryptonite Customer Service

 

elyob opined the following...

Hope you're not expecting to lock your bike up in the meantime. ;-)

Jon

 

[snip]

Eh? Whaddid I miss?

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Wik secured a place in history by writing:

Kryptonite Locks can be opened with:

a) A crisp rasher of streaky bacon
b) A hairgrip
c) A Bic biro
d) A manoeuvre not un-Heimlich like, but smaller scale

At least one of these is true, hence the corporate largesse.

 

Yup, I'd be much happier arranging a replacement at a LBS.

 

elyob wrote:

[Kryptostull]

However, the good Mr. Ballantine posted the following, from "Publishers
Weekly", to the hpv mailing list yesterday:

"Trademark of Steel? Court Backs DC in Kryptonite Suit

In the bizarro lawsuit of the day, a federal judge has ruled that DC Comics
can move forward with a trademark-infringement lawsuit against
a bicycle-lock company that uses Kryptonite as the company name and on a
series of security devices.

Judge Richard Owen of the Southern District Court of New York also dismissed
counterclaims by the Kryptonite Corporation that DC Comics
did not own trademark rights to the term Kryptonite because it had never
used the term in connection with the sale of goods or services.
Barring a settlement, the case will go to trial.

The lawsuit grew out of a 1983 agreement between DC Comics and the
Kryptonite company that gave the bicycle lock company limited rights to the
use of the "Krypto" prefix. DC Comics is charging that the firm has breached
that original agreement and its trademarks by using Kryptonite on a wider
variety of products than called for under the deal.

In making the ruling, Owen noted that trademark law protects, "a broad
spectrum of marks, symbols, design elements and characters," which the
public "directly associates" with a particular trademark. Owen also cited a
1981 trademark ruling in the case of Warner Bros. v. Gay Toys
Inc., which established that "ingredients" in major entertainment trademarks
can be protected."

They're all mad, I tell you!

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Editor - British Human Power Club Newsletter
http://www.bhpc.org.uk/
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My niece has such a lock purchased less than three months ago. Where
does she register for an exchange?

--
(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
Just as defying the law of gravity through building aircraft requires
careful design and a lot of effort, so too does defying laws of
economics. It seems to be a deeply ingrained aspect of humanity to
forever strive to improve things, so unquestioning acceptance of a
free market system seems to me to be unnatural. ;; Charles Bryant

 

In

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Steve Parry

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

http://www.arrivedeprived.org.uk/

K100RS SE
F650
(not forgetting the SK90PY)

 

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http://www.kryptonitelock.com


--
Steve Parry

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

http://www.arrivedeprived.org.uk/

K100RS SE
F650
(not forgetting the SK90PY)

 

Who will tell you to bugger off apparently. Kryptonite are only doing
it direct.

http://www.singletrackworld.co.uk/article.php?sid=1467

 

So what are you expected to do while they have your lock? Presumably
you will have to buy another anyway.

 

I'm going to fasten an electric pencil sharpener to my wheel.

Watch it chew their biros.

 

Yeah, I know. At least hopefully they'll only expect me to send it within
the UK (main importer?). I know they're paying the postage, but it's the
time it'll take for it to arrive and replacement sent out.

 

Swot I fort, which is why I posted it.

NP - I nicked it from Another Place anyway ;-)

 

Ah. Non-tubular. So instead of fixing the basic problem, that it's
easy to deform a plastic key blank into a workable key by ramming it
down the hole, they're simply going to change the shape of the
hole. So the same method will work, it's just you won't be able to buy
the key blank from your local stationers.

But B&Q or a local supplier of plastic mouldings might well be able to
help. That'll be handy if you ever forget your key, or fancy taking
up a new career as a bike thief.

I wonder how Krytponite got that one past their lawyers? Presumably
because lawyers know f*** all about engineering.

 

Have a look at their website and you'll see a new lock mechanism which uses
something more like a normal key. Presumably, this has the same failings as
a normal key, but I don't see Yale etc in the midts of a massiv recall.

btw - if you'd taken the trouble to do this before sending this post you'd
have looked less of a prat.


druidh