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Russell Best, grandson of Frank Best, acquired Best Lock
Corporation in May 1994 from his father, Walter Best. He changed the name of Best Lock Corporation in November, 1997 to Best Access Systems. On November 25, 2002, all holdings of Russell Best, who had acquired all the outstanding stock of
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Best unsuccessfully sued Ilco claiming patents infringements over their key blade design and utility patents. Ilco counterclaimed that the patents were not valid. In August 1996, court decided that both patents were invalid on basis that its utility patent was already covered in a prior art and
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Frank Best had created several companies for a number of inventions. Frank E. Best, Inc. held the original patents, while Best
Universal Lock Corporation was licensed to manufacture and sell the products. Best Lock Corporation was established later to manufacture and sell a new tubular lockset
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From the several keyways that Best markets, one product line, known as their
Premium Key System, features a series of key sections of more substantial girth relative to most common industry types. Best held patents on the overall shape of these keys until Ilco-Unican Corporation (now Kaba-Ilco)
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Universal Lock Corporation, which in turn, controlled Best Lock Corporation which manufactured and sold the Best line of products.
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housings were not specifically identified in any patent documentation, the courts decided that there could be no infringement. Subsequently, Falcon was able to continue to produce housings and develop its own very similar core line to compete with Best
Universal Lock.
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Russell Best had ousted from the original company began a new enterprise - Marshall Best Security - in the same Indianapolis community and producing the same types of interchangeable cores and related commercial hardware.
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President from 1966 through 1994 and it was during his tenure that the full line of mechanical lock hardware was developed.
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