<p dir="ltr">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?</p>
<p dir="ltr">/mr<br>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Den sön 6 okt. 2024 20:05Tom Wiltshire <<a href="mailto:tom@electricdruid.net">tom@electricdruid.net</a>> skrev:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">+1 agree. Just because the patent exists doesn't mean it's enforceable, or even that there's anyone still interested in enforcing it.<div><br></div><div>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!</div><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 6 Oct 2024, at 18:10, Mike Bryant <<a href="mailto:mbryant@futurehorizons.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mbryant@futurehorizons.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><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><div><br><div>On 6 Oct 2024 17:59, Roman Sowa via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div></div><font size="2" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt"><div>Has anyone ever dealt with capacitive touch keyboard for musical<span> </span><br>instrument in legal terms?<br>There seems to be quite a few patents out there for this, and many of<span> </span><br>them not expired at all.<br>I wonder how EDP managed that with their Wasp and Gnat, or maybe the<span> </span><br>patent weren't yet granted back then?<br>There are also currently made instruments with touch keyboards like<span> </span><br>Buchla and all its clones, MicroFreak and others.<br>Possibly if I make the pads in funny shape and with obligatory stupid<span> </span><br>graphics, I'm safe, but I'd really like my keyboard to look like keyboard.<br><br>Roman<br>________________________________________________________<br>This is the Synth-diy mailing list<br>Submit email to: <a href="mailto:Synth-diy@synth-diy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a><br>View archive at:<span> </span><a href="https://synth-diy.org/pipermail/synth-diy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://synth-diy.org/pipermail/synth-diy/</a><br>Check your settings at:<span> </span><a href="https://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy</a><br>Selling or trading? 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