[sdiy] touch keyboard patent

[Roman Sowa]

That's what I wanted to find out, but they are all written in such 
language that all I want is to run away and never see it again.
I'll try again for sure

Roman

W dniu 2024-10-07 o 00:09, Mattias Rickardsson pisze:
> Are these patents dealing with the shape of the touch areas/traces, the 
> control/detection circuitry and signals, methods of detecting continuous 
> position/pressure, or all of the above?
> 
> /mr
> 
> 
> Den sön 6 okt. 2024 20:05Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net 
> <mailto:tom at electricdruid.net>> skrev:
> 
>     +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
>>     <mailto: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 <mailto: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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