Yonex Duora Z-Strike | Something Wrong?

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  1. BadmintonPro

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    Hey there! I hope you are having an awesome day. I sold both of my Voltric Z Force II for Astrox 77 and Duora Z Strike. everything seems great, except one tiny little thing that just doesn't seem to calm my nerves. on the Duora Z Strikes shaft, it says PAT Pending. I want to know what that is, and if anyone of you also have that.
     
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    well the duozs patent is pending for copyright.
     
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    What does that mean? There is nothing physically wrong with my racquet right?
     
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    No, your racket is fine.
     
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    Thsnk youu
     
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    I've been looking at my z-strike for 10 minutes. "patent pending" is nowhere to be found .
     
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    Hmm. Where did you get your racket?
     
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    Yumo Canada
     
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    so it should be authentic, because yumo is a legit store. Still very surprising. Maybe they added that in the recent produced rackets. what is your cone code?
     
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    My cone code and shaft code is original. No worries about that. I am not asking for authenticity but just wanted to know that this new things is all about.
     
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    Have you tried contacting Yumo about it?
     
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    Yes but no reply. I asked them only 4 hours ago
     
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    I purchased a Z strike a few weeks ago, not from Yumo but another Canadian store and that "patent pending" is not there
     
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    Exactly. I had bought Z Strike last year and it didn't have this thing. But I don't care really.
     
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    Usually small companies (apacs/fleet/macbolt etc) tend to copy the design from big companies (yonex/victor/lining). Hence yonex applied for patent copyright to prevent this design copy from other companies.

    Edit: it is an eyesore, but bear with it because yours is original.
     
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    OK PHEW. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OUT OF ALL THE REPLIES, US CALMED MY NERVES DOWN THE MOST. THANKS MAN
     
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    Glad you cleared things up. My Z-strikes doesn’t have the PAT pending either but yours just might have it as it was part of the first batch production run. Interesting the you’ve gone for the Z strike and the Astrox 77 Amazon I have both of these too.
     
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    Glad to calm your nerves down mate :D:D:D
    Luckily both my duozs are among first release, they did not have PAT Pending. ​
     
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