There is a very long knife forum thread filled with people upset that this new knife's design elements were, well, pirated from <<Fill In The Blank>> without some level of appropriate credit. Sigh.

I too was thrilled to see the new knives rolled out to take the void created by Benchmade's decision to stop production of the RSK Mk1's and have no doubt that Doug Ritter did whatever was appropriate and legal to produce the knives.