Oculus Lights wrote:

Just goes to show the suckers people are for believing third hand
innuendo on the internet instead of calling me to get their facts straight.
That Kickstarter backer was removed and banned permanently. Kickstarter
sent a letter that his claims had no basis.

Without links to it and the court transcript, the interested public will
never learn who was right.

Unremarkable? Ordinary? The patent office disagrees.

The patent office's criteria might not be the same as mine. I was also
surprised what Bumm and others have been awarded patents for.

No way to make that
beam with ordinary obvious parts, methods, and procedures. Everything in
there is proprietary or not normally available off the shelf.

As nobody including MTBR has supplied contrary evidence to your, the
designer's assessment, I have no problem with your statement.

the description of the parts in that picture is wrong,
that its not "ordinary" nor the portrayals and claimed negatives of it. Nor
is any mention made of the angles, shapes, layout, offset, dimensions, and
every other aspect of a compound optic that creates the beam, separate from
the physical pieces in it.

Cutting through the emotions, I can see what you mean. I am not agreeing
with some MTBR user's description of your lamp. I mistakenly mixed the
physical "exposed" part into one sentence with my personal views about the
lamp's optics. From what I can see in the photo, the compound optic is
certainly special, and the parts can absolutely do what they are supposed to
do. I, much like Frank, just don't find the resultant beam as attractive
and useful as its designer does.

lost holiday sales
to lights from the big companies that pay Francis Cebedo big money for
advertising and sponsorship, but Oculus is constantly chosen over by anyone
comparing side by side.

Who cares about Mr. Cebedo? From what I have seen, it's entirely obvious
that he doesn't know much about bicycle lights. But he seems to be an
advanced martial arts practitioner, allowing you to become emotional on his
own forum. If everybody prefers your lamp, tested side to side with theirs,
I don't see a reason why you should waste your time exploding on forums.
Just hit the Bay Area's races and trails and sell dozens a day, tell your
new customers you appreciate fair reviews, quietly exchange 2 percent of
sales, thrive and become rich and happy!

Either take me up on the bet or retract your who accusation.

No bets needed, no WHO needed. I retracted what could be read as an unfair
accusation.

(This statement was not effected by anything that might be construed as
coercive, but made trying to be similarly fair about the Oculus lamp shown
as Frank was in reviewing it. EOD. Happy holidays!)