[sdiy] cloning, copying, copyrights

[Samppa Tolvanen]

Hi, Florian, all.

Very interesting discussion as in ~our "product specification", the
main issue seems to be "do we have enough IP to protect", so it would
justify Yet Another ITC start-up.

Looks like this needs a bit different approach in the both sides of
the bond and definitely a consultation from a copyright/ patent-layer.
AFAIK Big Corporations on U.S. are Hard Hitters - the most probably
the prior-art is there buried somewhere in the patents..

On 7/30/08, Florian Anwander <Florian.Anwander at consol.de> wrote:

> >
>  This is the anglosaxon approach of copy right. The roman-based copyright
>   Is quite different.

>  For technical inventions there are:
>  - patent right (very similar to the US).
>  - competition regulations, including protection of utility pattern.
>
>  In the US only very appearent (most times optical) similarties are
>  matter of legal fact. But in Europe also similarities in function can be
>  of matter. Eg: The moog ladder with transistors assumingly would have
>  been protected also against imitations like diode based ladder filter.
>