Just bought a Uberti 1860 Full Flute

[Major 2]

Ala

I'm not a lawyer....but I think it's a manufacture thing ..Someone other that COLT using their name and making $$$
and COLT wouldn't, couldn't, stand for it...
It's not Patent infringement or even copyrights .... It's greed I think!

They busted USFA back in 92 for calling themselves USPFA as in United States Patent Fire Arms
I know I have a Type 1 Richards with USPFA stamped on it (a prototype for The 93 Shot Show )
Colt threaten suit for using United States Patent Fire Arms name... USFA decided not to challenge it and changed to USFA

If you use the Copyright name you gotta pay the toll 

Seems to me you bought the medallions you can put the where you want on your GUNS ..They are your grips!
Now maybe if you were doing them for sale and were making millions..Then you might expect Colts lawyers to come knocking.
However, they are selling the Grips with medallions, for your replacement who said you have to use wood too!

Like I said, I'm not a LAWYER,... but I did stay in a Holiday Inn once !

[Alabama]

Copyrights and infringment is a funny thing Major 2 ? All the people whom write about Colts, their guns ,thier legacy ( whats left of it ) make profit from Colts name , legacy , etc , but they don't give Colt any money either . From some of the books I have read they don't ask for permission either 
So I figure once the patents ran out on the design of the Colt guns , then its all fair game to me now , especially now that they aint making any BP guns , which is a sad shame . But what they would put out now would be semi-crap and too expensive anyway ..That is just my little opinion of Colt , but I really don't mean to offend anyone saying that stuff , really I don't . I have watched the company go south too many years and it really pisses me off that they are heading the way they are heading , its truly sad . It aint what Samuel had in mind for his Company I am sure .
I wish it was not so , but it is so .
My happiest experince as a youth was shooting my Dads Colt New Frontier .22 target ( I may have the name designation wrong on that ? ) with the small barrel , I think it was 4-3/4" or something , with target sights ? Now that was a nice Colt , and very accurate for its size . The blueing was exceptional too . Those days are gone , and so is my good to great attiude towards Colt obviously . 
My last Colt was an is an Anaconda .44 , but after having to put endshake bushings in right out of the box ( I should have sent it back and bought a Taurus ) on a $1,000 gun , my mind was made up on what Colt was becoming . Very accurate gun , but sloppy sloppy sloppy . My Colt H-Bar target AR is pretty nice but that is only because Olympic Arms built the reciever . Oh yes, that is truth, Colt hires them to build lots of ther stuff , but nobody knows it but they guys that build the guns at Olympic Arms . My friend works there, it is truth . Colt aint the only one that gets thier recievers made there either by the way . So is it a Colt H-Bar really ? Not really huh ? But no less a Colt than an Uberti in my opinion from Colt Black Powder Company  .
That's why I think the copyright thing and infringment is over rated . If they were still making the BP guns, then I would have a little issue with copying them too acurately , but they are not doing them anymore, so we rely on Uberti and Pietta and Euroarms to produce the guns. They are pretty accurately authentic  , but they could be better , but Colt won't tollerate it, yet they won't produce any either ? Kind of a hypocrital catch 22 if you will I would say ?
The only way I know to get one from the Italians and have it authentically correct is to defarrb it like you do and add the correct lettering , name etc . Technically that would be illegal I assume . Especailly if you sold it .
This is a real gun quwandry I aint really content with , and it all boils down to Colt not putting out the guns for the CASS and SASS crowd in cap and ball form .
Once again giving me a bad attitude about it . Unfortunetly they wouldn't and couldn't make them cheap enough for anyone to
actualy want to buy one for the quality either they would be putting out so they have ruined any market share for themselves and they know it . But they won't let anyone else produce more accurately made repros than what's out there . A sad pitty it is .
I agree whole heartedly , it aint copy right, it's greed , Colt lawyer greed .
Good thing that I am pretty happy with the Italian guns I guess, because that's all there is  And they are getting pretty nice too compaired to what they used to be years ago . Bad part is I truly wish I could be proud agian of the Colt company but it aint easy is it ? May sound like COLT bashing here from me but it aint, it is just my observation of a company that has lost touch of its most important thing , customers and quality . That's my truth, it don't have to be yours it is just my opinion and I don't mean to offend anyone except Colt .

Alabama