so, basically .270 win,or adopt a .30-03 type case just in .276?
It wasn't the cartridge that pissed off Mauser, it was the blatant rip off of the Mauser action that did it.
oh god, so much misinformation here,Yes, because the .30-03/06 was different enough that they couldn't really make a claim about it. The rifle though was just flat out patent theft.
no, the us wasn't sued over patent infringements for the rifle, the us had already gone to mauser and worked out a deal that allowed them to use the mauser rifle patents
they were sued for infringing on the patent for the spitzer round
they had proof that they had done experiments on spitzer's in the 1900's, the case was suspended in ww1, and after the war the court found that the us had not infringed on the spitzer patent,
but they had seized the patent during the war in an illegal manner and had to pay damages for that,