Ian Paice 1966 Paice joined The MI5, which soon changed its name to The Maze. Primarily a club band, The Maze produced a number of singles, recorded mainly in Italy and France. The Maze featured vocalist Rod Evans, who alongside Paice was to form the original line-up of Deep Purple in March 1968. Evans had responded to an ad for a lead singer published by Deep Purple management, and showed up for his audition with Ian Paice in tow. Given that Deep Purple's first choice for a drummer, Bobby Woodman, had expressed dislike for the band's musical direction, the group hastily arranged
Paice (company) Paice develops hybrid technologies for automotive use. Technologies, as developed by Paice are applied in Toyota Prius, Ford C-MAX, Porsche CayenneHybrid and other vehicles. Besides development marketing and defense of patents held are essential tasks. Paice holds about 29 patents in the field of hybrid vehicle drivetrain. Core patents are Against Hyundai because of Hyundai Sonata Hybrid, and Kia,because of its Kia Optima hybrid car, compensations millions worth were successfully claimed. Similar claims against Ford in 7 of 25 patent appeals by Ford ended up in final decisions by US patent office USPTAB in favour of paice, further decisions are