[sdiy] touch keyboard patent

[Mike Bryant]

People patent all sorts of things in the hope somebody just pays up.   I can't imagine there's been much innovative in touch apart from the Apple two fingered gestures for decades so just go ahead.

On 6 Oct 2024 17:59, Roman Sowa via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
Has anyone ever dealt with capacitive touch keyboard for musical
instrument in legal terms?
There seems to be quite a few patents out there for this, and many of
them not expired at all.
I wonder how EDP managed that with their Wasp and Gnat, or maybe the
patent weren't yet granted back then?
There are also currently made instruments with touch keyboards like
Buchla and all its clones, MicroFreak and others.
Possibly if I make the pads in funny shape and with obligatory stupid
graphics, I'm safe, but I'd really like my keyboard to look like keyboard.

Roman
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