Colt’s M4/M4A1 royalties appear to have been paid via multiple contracts coinciding with either individual delivery orders or the specific line items from these individual delivery orders. These royalty payments are typically labeled as either purchase orders “P” or as definitive contracts “C”, although recently they have shown up as delivery orders on an preexisting IDIQ contract. Here are some examples specifically mentioning M4/M4A1 carbine royalties, although not all may be linked to FN’s contracts W56HZV-13-D-0030 and W15QKN-15-D-0072:
W56HZV-13-P-0258 (6/25/2013) $30,498
W56HZV-13-P-0334 (6/25/2013) $127,075
W56HZV-13-P-0344 (6/25/2013) $5,685
W56HZV-13-P-0345 (6/25/2013) $6,219.39
W56HZV-13-P-0393 (7/1/2013) $5,787.33
W56HZV-13-P-0394 (7/1/2013) $6,242.13
W56HZV-13-P-0573 (9/12/2013) $3,717.99
W56HZV-13-P-0577 (9/12/2013) $1,137
W56HZV-14-P-0016 (12/2/2013) $8,527.50
W56HZV-14-P-0017 (12/3/2013) $4,206.90
W56HZV-14-P-0018 (12/3/2013) $107,479
W56HZV-14-P-0019 (12/3/2013) $6,230.76
W56HZV-14-P-0408 (9/11/2014) $61,864.17 (Related to FN’s fourth delivery order for W56HZV-13-D-0030)
W56HZV-14-C-0224 (9/18/2014) $689,400 (Related to FN’s fifth delivery order for W56HZV-13-D-0030)
W56HZV-14-P-0409 (9/18/2014) $20,555.61 (Related to FN’s sixth delivery order for W56HZV-13-D-0030)
W56HZV-14-P-0510 (9/18/2014) $52,864.81 (Related to FN’s seventh delivery order for W56HZV-13-D-0030)
W56HZV-14-P-0529 (9/18/2014) $40,215
W56HZV-14-C-0312 (9/23/2014) $1,654.56
W56HZV-14-C-0315 (9/24/2014) $45.96
W56HZV-15-C-0045 (12/1/2014) $157,792.17
W56HZV-15-C-0085 (3/5/2015) $1,953.30
W56HZV-15-C-0084 (3/9/2015) $9,038
W56HZV-15-P-0481 (9/14/2015) $3,447
W56HZV-15-P-0499 (9/14/2015) $1,586.20
W56HZV-15-P-0532 (9/24/2015) $464
W56HZV-16-P-0111 (4/19/2016) $12,656.28 (Related to FN’s seventeenth delivery order for W56HZV-13-D-0030)
W56HZV-16-P-0152 (8/4/2016) $1,771.50
W15QKN-15-D-0102-0004 Transaction 2 (11/30/2016) $20,177.76
W15QKN-15-D-0102-0004 Transaction 1 (12/21/2016) $819,368.02
W56HZV-17-P-0104 (5/16/2017) $10,083.30
W15QKN-15-D-0102-0008 (1/17/2018) $145,604.99
Why were people paying licensing fees to Colt for M4s? Isn’t the AR-15 design in the public domain?
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