Brian A. Blakley

Brian A. Blakley is an individual inventor, not an operating company. He is credited with inventing a "trigger forward displacement system" for semi-automatic firearms, a technology more commonly known as a forced reset trigger. This invention is the subject of several U.S. patents, including U.S. Patent 7,398,723, which was granted in 2008.

Blakley's patented technology forms the basis for products sold by the company Rare Breed Triggers, LLC. The intellectual property appears to be held by ABC IP, LLC, which is listed as the assignee on at least one of Blakley's later patents. Together, Rare Breed Triggers and ABC IP have been involved in numerous patent infringement lawsuits against other companies in the firearms industry. Blakley himself does not appear to manufacture or sell products directly.

Based on the provided litigation data, Brian A. Blakley has a defensive patent litigation posture. He has been tracked as a defendant in one case and has not appeared as a plaintiff in any tracked cases. This indicates he is a party being sued rather than a patent asserter.

The single tracked case is Rare Breed Triggers, LLC v. ABC IP, LLC et al., filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on November 13, 2020. In this case, Blakley is named as a defendant. This is notable because the plaintiffs, Rare Breed Triggers and ABC IP, are the entities that own and enforce the patents based on his inventions in other legal actions. The underlying forced reset trigger technology has also been the subject of regulatory interpretation by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).