Wait a minute. They are so incompetent they could not get a patent on
their equalizer? You can get a patent on exercising your cat with a
laser pointer! Now I know we have made the right decision.
73's
Bob
N4HY
Jim Lux wrote:
Found an application (2004) by Miller. You can find it by searching the
uspto.gov site for applications and search on "rane" in the assignee field.
The application claims a method for taking extenally supplied settings for
filters in an equalizer and "calibrating" (my word) them to generate the
actual controls for the equalizer. The idea being to compensate for the
interaction of the filters in the real world. The many claims all follow
on that basic idea, in the usual fashion of more and more details, so that
if the examiner throws out a high level claim, you still get the low level one.
However, from my cursory reading of the application, all they're patenting
is the way in which you translate from the user specification into the
actual filter implementation. They're not patenting the filtering itself,
just the way a user specifies how the filtering is to be done.
The disclosure of the invention goes into all sorts of details on typical
implementation, moving averages, various canonical filter implementations,
etc, but the disclosure's not what the patent controls. That's all in the
claims.
On the subject of other things that Rane might have filed apps for..
They filed for a trademark (Aug 2002) on "Perfect-Q", but abandoned it in
June 2003.
James Lux, P.E.
Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group
Flight Communications Systems Section
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena CA 91109
tel: (818)354-2075
fax: (818)393-6875
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