That's why SMC has been superseded by Ghostless coatings. (Though I
guess they're still SMC in some form of other.
On 2/10/2012 1:29 PM, Steffen Zahn wrote:
Shouldn't these patents be invalid by now? Patents only last 20 years.
Steffen Zahn
Am 10.02.2012 um 02:52 schrieb William Robb<[email protected]>:
On 09/02/2012 3:15 PM, mike wilson wrote:
On 09/02/2012 16:28, Darren Addy wrote:
Surely one of the real assets that Pentax carries with it is its name
and name
recognition.
I was going to say "no" to this. Then, remembering that the whole world
and its dog has owned Pentax recently and therefore had access to its
coating technology, I thought that you are probably right. All Pentax
has now is a name.
Having had access to their coating technology is not the same as being able to
take advantage of it now. If the SMC patents stayed with Pentax, then whatever
Hoya does, they won't be using SMC coatings on it.
Pentax is as much a name as Nikon is, FWIW.
Nikon has been little more than a blip on Mitsubishi's balance sheet for some 3
decades now. Funny how no one disses Nikon for that.
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