[sdiy] SSM chip reissue

[rsdio at audiobanshee.com]

On Apr 24, 2017, at 1:01 PM, Vladimir Pantelic <vladoman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24.04.2017 21:15, Jay Schwichtenberg wrote:
>> You need to look up Behringer's history. They lost lawsuits for coping Aphex (sp?) and Mackie equipment.
> 
> Behringer only lost to Aphex and that was in or before 1997, that's 20 years ago....
> 
> the Mackie suit was dismissed:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behringer#Legal_cases

It looks like Mackie lost because there isn't any law against literally copying another company's schematic in a competing product.

I don't know what the ethics are, but it sure makes it difficult for an inventor to make repairs easy decades into the future, without also making it easy for a competitor to skip all the R&D costs and undercut the price.

I suppose if there is a patent on technology in the schematic, like Moog's ladder filter, then that's a different story from hoping to copyright the schematic of a complete product.

Brian Willoughby