On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Bob Ham <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 13:48 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > >> follow the links from there. there are no patents here > >> randy's somewhat commercial attempt to take his idea(s) into the hands >> of musicians is here: http://www.madronalabs.com/ > > From http://www.madronalabs.com/hardware: > > "The Soundplane's continuous capacitive sensing technology is patent > pending." > > It seems like there are some patents there :-(
pending doesn't mean granted. i'd be suprised (but not *that* suprised) if the US patent system was willing to grant randy a patent for a system he described in full detail in his masters thesis and proceeded to describe in sufficient detail to reproduce it on a self-released youtube video. but i guess we'll see. maybe he filed the patent before doing either of those things. a shame if true, but understandable. yamaha or some similar company could make a lot of money from this idea. --p _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
