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Czech Small Arms (C.S.A.) is the only manufacturer of the Sa vz.58 rifles and Sa vz.61 Pistols. The factory located in Jablunka, Czech Republic, continues to produce these legendary firearms for distributors in almost 30 countries on 6 continents. Originally manufactured by CZ Uhersky Brod, Sa vz. 58 rifles and Sa vz. 61 Pistols are currently produced only by Czech Small Arms.
The growing popularity of the vz.58 and vz.61 has led to this expansion of new calibres. The vz.58 is now offered in .223 Rem and .222 Remington, while the Sa vz.61 is available in 9 mm P.A. Blank, 9 mm P.A. Rubber, 9 mm Browning and 9 mm Makarov.
A high degree of quality assurance is found throughout each level of the vz.58 and vz.61 production. From testing of raw materials to CNC machining and firearm assembly, every step of production exhibits extreme attention to detail. The objective of C.S.A. is to produce high quality firearms with a continued emphasis on innovation.
U.S. Patent No. | Application No. | Filing Date | 1st Publication date |
Patent Issue date |
Title |
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7,895,933 | 11/783,151 | 4/6/2007 | 4/17/2008 | 3/1/2011 | PISTOL CONVERSION FROM AN AUTOMATIC WEAPON |
7,676,974 | 11/442,324 | 5/30/2006 | 8/9/2007 | 3/16/2010 | AUTOMATIC RIFLE CONVERTED FOR NON-MILITARY USE |
8,191,298 | 12/605,790 | 10/26/2009 | 1/20/2011 | 06/05/2012 | MAGAZINE QUICK-RELEASE BLOCKING APPARATUS & METHOD |
9,310,148 | 14/724,852 | 05/29/2015 | 12/03/2015 | 04/12/2016 | APPARATUS & METHOD REQUIRING DISASSEMBLY OF RIFLE TO REMOVE MAGAZINE |
10,228,207 | 15/910,044 | 03/02/2018 | 09/13/2018 | 03/12/2019 | PISTOL INCLUDING MULTIFUNCTIONAL TRIGGER BAR, TRIGGER BAR RELEASE, DUAL SIDED TRIGGER BAR DEPRESSOR AND LOCKING BLOCK SPRINGS |
Czech Small Arms protects its products and related innovations in a variety of ways including, without limitation, patent, trademark, and copyright protection throughout the world. To comply with the marking requirements especially under U.S. patent law promulgated under 35 U.S.C. § 287, Czech Small Arms has marked all or at least substantially all of its products with the word "patent" located adjacent a uniform resource locator (URL) that directs the public to this particular Web page. U.S. patents claiming subject matter currently owned by Czech Small Arms (or for which Czech Small Arms has one or more licenses) are listed below.
Additionally, patent application serial numbers for published U.S. patent applications owned by Czech Small Arms (or for which Czech Small Arms has one or more licenses) that have not issued yet as patents are also listed. Website visitors are reminded that damages can be sought and recovered for infringing activity covered by a claim of a patent retroactively back to at least the publication date of such application under certain circumstances. Therefore, just because a patent may not have issued yet on subject matter claimed in one or more patent applications listed below, unlicensed parties are NOT free from potential patent infringement liability to make, use, sell, offer for sale, and/or import such claimed subject matter.
Czech Small Arms and its licensor(s) take infringement of their respective intellectual property rights very seriously and will not hesitate to enforce such rights if necessary.