Replies to post #25630 on Sigma Labs Inc (SASI)

[heuristictrades]

My thoughts exactly. Old business connections but still interesting. The Thompson Kuka connection is another interesting one.

[3dtdman]

I think you mean IPQA®. Chris Witty said in an email response to a concern I'd had:

"Chris,
The biggest concern I have is that GE will continue to use IPQA® without the registered trademark symbol, thereby converting it to a standard abbreviation.
Or does GE's JTDA with Sigma Labs give them the authority to do this, since the two companies worked together on the technology?"

His response:

"Obviously we have a close relationship with GE, but we own the trademark."

It doesn't help matters that the papers on the B6 site addressing the roll of IPQA® in welding:

http://www.b6sigma.com/index.php?page=media

don't use the registered copyright symbol, but I think that's because at the time they were written the trademark hadn't been registered. So they use the ™ (unregistered trademark symbol)when they used the term In-Process Quality Assurance™, indicating that they believed they had coined the term.