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04-24-2010, 07:48 PM
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I have an idea for making humcancelling pickups but would like to pattent it before posting it. Help needed.
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04-24-2010, 07:50 PM
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04-24-2010, 07:51 PM
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04-25-2010, 02:49 AM
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Costly business though. Unless you plan to actually produce this or have some other lucrative ideas this would not be a good idea.
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04-25-2010, 03:49 AM
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Originally Posted by drteeth | WTH! Its ubber costly! |
04-25-2010, 10:14 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | | Woah. Looks like you have to be serious.
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04-25-2010, 11:21 AM
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04-25-2010, 11:54 AM
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Originally Posted by vene-nemesis WTH! Its ubber costly! | If that was a surprise to You, you might want to rethink the whole deal.
Do keep in mind that if You have something patented and someone violates your patent, you have to protect it in court. Whether You have the money to do that or not. If You fail to protect Your patent and go bankrupt in the process for example, you lose both the patent and pretty much everything you have.
And BTW, a search in the patent sites will usually reveal with 98% probability that what ever Your invention is, it's either expired or currently patented.
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04-25-2010, 12:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Leuven, Belgium | | | A patent is expensive for a reason. Without a price, anyone could patent their idea willy-nilly in the hope that someone needs that particular piece of technology in the next 20 years so they can make a profit on that (case in point: you selling your idea to a pedal manufacturer?). The price of a patent discourages this, since now you need to be damn sure of the profitability of you idea before you can patent it.
From another perspective: a patent is essentially a legal monopoly over a limited period of time. It would not be a good idea to have this around without a certain treshold.
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04-25-2010, 01:39 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Bilbao Espaņa | | | I see, maybe i should try to sell my idea to delano for example? |
04-25-2010, 01:50 PM
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Edit: I know absolutely nothing about patents. |
04-25-2010, 01:53 PM
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Originally Posted by smperry Or seal your pickups so that no one can see (and steal) the design.
Edit: I know absolutely nothing about patents. | I doubt much protecting cases will hold out against the instrument of reverse engineering: the hammer
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04-25-2010, 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by drteeth I doubt much protecting cases will hold out against the instrument of reverse engineering: the hammer | Well you know how the saying goes: If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem. |
04-25-2010, 03:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Helsinki, Finland | | | Have you built and tested this pickup? Or is it just an idea? If so, I'd start by building a couple of those things and have a couple of trustworthy experienced players give their opinion on them. If you get good feedback from them and maybe got some of those pickups to some serious pros, you'd have a lot leverage when pitching your idea. At the moment, I guess that if you'd contact a pickup maker with an idea for new type of pickup, they'd be more likely to give you a price quote than an offering. |
04-25-2010, 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by drteeth I doubt much protecting cases will hold out against the instrument of reverse engineering: the hammer | True! |
04-25-2010, 11:03 PM
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Originally Posted by smperry Or seal your pickups so that no one can see (and steal) the design.
Edit: I know absolutely nothing about patents. | Quote:
Originally Posted by drteeth I doubt much protecting cases will hold out against the instrument of reverse engineering: the hammer | Quote:
Originally Posted by smperry True! | That's the most used "theft prevention" technique there is.
And by far the most effective and the least expensive.
While the "reverse engineering with a hammer" sounds like a plan, it seldom yields the desired results.
Anyone tried to "reverse engineer" an EMG active pickup?
A magnetic pickup was nothing new when it was first "invented", a certain "new" pickup is a modified proximity sensor from automation technology, etc. Neither devalues their impact for our beloved amplified music though.
OTOH the highly praised Gibson PAF pickup wasn't patented at all, and the patent number of the "patented" ones was for something totally different.
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