Note that their product isn't available yet.

> Question: How much do they cost? > Answer: Price is not known yet. Production has not started and therefore not enough of them have been made to know what the cost will be. You pre-order with a down payment toward the purchase, and be placed in line. See above.

> Question: When will one be ready for me? > Answer: It will be a while yet before production in quantities begins.

The Chinese already copied the design, improved it, manufactured it, and listed it for sale on a global marketplace. The poor guy is finished.

Or, from another point of view, the inventor and the Chinese both copied a design from 1912 [1] which was shown in a widely shown Youtube video in June 2021 [2] - a month before this "inventor" applied for a patent [3]

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US1059545 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBeOgGt_oWU [3] https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230008280A1/en

And according to the video it was already patented back then in the US. Hopefully the patent office will reject the application.

The patent office isn't in the business of rejecting applications. That's left for the courts to decide.

I'm not really familiar with the patent application process, but according to [1] the US patent office does reject application based on prior art.

[1] https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s706.html

However, in practise it issues many patents that have prior art

https://www.eff.org/issues/patents

Their claimed invention is about attaching fractal jaws to existing engraving vises and not the fractal vise itself.

> The patent pending improvements allow for use with engraving vises and other vises.

But in reality their patent applications doesn't even claim that, but rather a specific method for attaching fractal jaws to existing engraving vises as far as I can tell.

btrettel found what seems to be the patent applications in another comment

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230008280A1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230009028A1/en