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Old 06-07-2013, 9:04 PM
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Originally Posted by bender152 View Post
Any links to back this up? For the record, I would very much like to be wrong here. If that were the case, my respect for both companies would go up.

When these lowers first came out a year or two ago, there was a lot of question as to the licensing. As I understand it, this company registered the name "Umbrella" for use in the firearms industry, which was somehow legal to do (I'm not a lawyer, so I can't explain the technicalities) without having to license it from Capcom.

As for the logo, it actually cannot be copyrighted. Here's a wikipedia link. Technically, ANY company could release a lower with an umbrella logo.
It was mentioned here:

http://www.weaponevolution.com/forum...oup-Rifle-Grip

http://www.ar15news.com/category/man...esearch-group/


As far as legalities I don't know. I would assume if there was some licensing needed UCWRG took care of it.
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