Patent violations?!

[Paul Perry]

At 12:18 PM 11/05/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I published the "build a ten dollar harmonic sweetener" in Electronic
Musician in
>1987. Technically it close enough to the Aphex Aural Exicter 

Can you remember the date on the AExiter patent?
Maybe we cd all go into production on the date it lapses!

And, what was the actual claim of the patent?
A friend did some work building a version of this & concluded that the 
key, in a practical sense, was in recombining the distorted & original
signals so 
that there was no cancellation. Which requires some tricky phase shifting.
But, if it is done in DSP, it is much easier.
Although as Jules showed, you can get something useful for $10.

paul perry melbournhe australia 
BTW since in Western law the opposing parties are supported by two lawyers
each of whom say the law supports their own side, the sum knowledge of
lawyers is zero.