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