Please understand that this is not my decision. Any issue of trademarks, royalties, etc., does not involve me. I did design the Klee, but donated the design and all rights thereof to electro-music as a fund raiser for electro-music.com to cover operating and show expenses. Scott contacted me to review the panel, which I did, but to be honest, the issue of royalties never even broached my feeble brain. I just didn't anticipate that as being an issue, and feel - wish, if you will - in retrospect, I would have mentioned it to Scott.
I've never made a dime, nor ever intended to make a dime, off of this design. I do think the electro-music forum is a good cause, but I have absolutely no financial stake in it, one way or the other.
-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Lord <plord@...>
>Sent: Apr 6, 2009 7:28 PM
>To: ModularSynthPanels@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [ModularSynthPanels] Re: Klee panel E-M royalty
>
>One correction to the analysis from Bill
>
>On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:22 PM, wjhall11 <wjhall@...> wrote:
>> There is a possible exception to do with the trademark of the term "KLEE"
>> but trademark is a whole other can of worms and would require Mr. Stites to
>> register the term, or so I understand.
>
>Proof of prior commercial use (that's the "trade" part) is usually
>sufficient for a trademark claim. Registration provides additional
>protections. It is exactly analogous to copyrights, which exist upon
>creation of the work but which have much smaller teeth until
>registered.
>
>Paul
>--
>who is also going to buy one however this works out and whatever it costs...
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