GoPro and Boulder camera mount maker Dinkum Systems have settled filed a year ago.
last December after the camera juggernaut GoPro released its Jaws Flex Clamp, a flexible camera mount identical to Dinkum’s ActionPod, which .
Lucas and Mans once were tight with the GoPro crew. The company bought hundreds of their ActionpPod mounts for marketing. GoPro hosted Lucas in their plush booths at trade shows like the Outdoor Retailer in Salt Lake City. (In the video above, Lucas peddles her ActionPod inside the GoPro booth at the 2012 Outdoor Retailer summer trade show.)
Lucas and Mans said GoPro assured them the company was not planning to make their own flexible camera mount.
Dinkum Systems ActionPod camera mount. (Photo courtesy Dinkum Systems)
“They specifically said they weren’t going to make their own,” said Lucas after filing the lawsuit.
After a cease-and-desist letter failed to stop GoPro from selling its Jaws Flex Clamp, the pair filed the patent infringement lawsuit, arguing GoPro had copied their ActionPod’s ball-and-socket, rotating connection technology.
On Monday, Mans and Lucas announced they had reached a settlement with GoPro. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The pair are inspired by the rags-to-riches story of GoPro founder Nick Woodman and said they modeled their business on GoPro.
“We look to them as an example of the most awesome success story you can imagine,” Lucas said in May.
Both Mans and Lucas said they were happy with the resolution.
“We’re really bloody pleased it’s over,” Lucas said.
