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Re: Patent law

DJRND3 DJ looper Patent Publication Number: 20030171933 at www.uspto.gov

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mark sottilaro" <zerocrossing2001@yahoo.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 7:23 PM
Subject: Patent law


> Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a patent a
> protection of an idea's implementation and not an
> idea?  Like for instance I couldn't patent "car break"
> but I could patent a new technology I developed to
> break a car... So if the Repeater (or any Looper)
> implemented time stretching of audio USING someone
> else's circuit design and code, they'd be in trouble. 
> However if they developed a new way of doing it,
> they're in the clear.  I have to think it's got to be
> like this or how could Microsoft make Windows... or
> Apple make it's OS after looking at Zerox's computer
> GUI?  You can't patent "clicking on an icon brings up
> a graphical representation of a window" but you can
> patent the code you use to implement it.  Am I totally
> off here?
> 
> Mark
> 
> --- jeff larson <jeff.larson@sailpoint.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > From: Warren Sirota [mailto:wsirota@wsdesigns.com] 
> > > Interesting. Can you give me any hints as to where
> > I might find the
> > patent
> > > info?
> > 
> > Mr. Perille was kind enough to send me this URL:
> > 
> >
> http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u
> >
> =%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=per
> > ille.IN.&OS=IN/perille&RS=IN/perille
> 
> 
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