<div dir="ltr">potting is also a way of ensuring nobody borrows your ideas, too :-)<div><br></div><div>IIRC, there was an agreement reached whereby ARP acknowledged borrowing the Moog filter, Moog acknowledged borrowing some ARP oscillator tracking tech, and both parties put it behind them and moved on.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Tom Wiltshire <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom@electricdruid.net" target="_blank">tom@electricdruid.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I don't know how they got caught, but putting potting around something is a bit like saying "Don't look under here!", isn't it? (Then and now!)<br>
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The lawsuit was threatened but never required is my understanding of it. Moog's patent was good, and ARP didn't try and contest it, so there never was any court action.<br>
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On 2 Sep 2016, at 21:02, <a href="mailto:rsdio@audiobanshee.com">rsdio@audiobanshee.com</a> wrote:<br>
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> Hmm, if ARP hid their VCF circuit, then how did they ever get caught?<br>
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> I assume that they did not actually anticipate being sued. If they did anticipate the lawsuit and then went ahead with a copyright infringement thinking that hiding it would somehow work, then it sure seems like an epic fail. Probably a ton of urban legend around this story.<br>
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> Brian<br>
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> On Sep 2, 2016, at 12:38 PM, Rick Jansen <<a href="mailto:rick.jansen@xs4all.nl">rick.jansen@xs4all.nl</a>> wrote:<br>
>> They should have left the scratching to an intern.<br>
>> Did they also scratch the resistors? Very thorough people...<br>
>> Didn't ARP put their VCF in resin to hide it was a copy of the Moog filter?<br>
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