[sdiy] touch keyboard patent

[Tom Wiltshire]

+1 agree. Just because the patent exists doesn't mean it's enforceable, or even that there's anyone still interested in enforcing it.

Make a note of which the *earliest* patent you've found is, and if anyone comes after you because of one of the later ones, tell them that there's prior art and theirs is worth nothing!

> On 6 Oct 2024, at 18:10, Mike Bryant <mbryant at futurehorizons.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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