its great how assumptions start. magura has a huge amount of patenting n their brakes. surely other companies would have done it by now. i.e. shimano. if anyone could get around this 'loophole' bollox it would be shimano. perhaps they will be made by someone else and branded magura, in return for a huge stake in the profits? its impossible to tell who made them from a picture..or so and so said that so and so said he heard this.