[Verloren]

  Worldwide patents are more expensive.

Yeah. Each jurisdiction has their own filing costs, plus the fees for the patent attorney (rare to find one who can file in 2+ jurisdictions). JH will probably be targeting areas where it would be more lucrative to ban competition from using the same tech, or be able to get a settlement fee. 

 

[Mython]

Hmmm... I wonder if this whole unfortunate debacle may finally be nearing resolution? (not yet, but nearly)
 
 
https://www.unitedstatescourts.org/federal/flmd/305579/

 

[GabbaHey]

Just a guess.. but maybe a royalty agreement to JH by 64?

 

[glassmonkey]

I would rather see 64Audio at Canjam London, but I imagine it would lead to pistols at dawn.

 

[Mython]

After a long pause, it appears there has been a flurry of activity, recently, if anyone cares to check the above link.

 

[glassmonkey]

  Just a guess.. but maybe a royalty agreement to JH by 64?

It would be an incredibly bad precedent to set. This patent needs to go the way of the dodo.

 

[Mython]

 

  Just a guess.. but maybe a royalty agreement to JH by 64?

It would be an incredibly bad precedent to set. This patent needs to go the way of the dodo.

 
 
Lines 116 - 116.5 make for interesting reading.
 
For reasons that will be abundantly obvious to many head-fiers, I've been anticipating this move, ever since the legal action was announced, and I'm very interested to see how it may alter the entire course of the proceedings.

 

[glassmonkey]

 

 

  Just a guess.. but maybe a royalty agreement to JH by 64?

It would be an incredibly bad precedent to set. This patent needs to go the way of the dodo.

 
 
Lines 116 - 116.5 make for interesting reading.
 
For reasons that will be abundantly obvious to many head-fiers, I've been anticipating this move, ever since the legal action was announced, and I'm very interested to see how it may alter the entire course of the proceedings.

If I'm noting right, those are the lines where 64Ears essentially is challenging that everybody else is doing this and Knowles sells matched driver pairs for this purpose, hence Jerry Harvey has an indefensible patent, right? I'm somewhat surprised there haven't been amicus briefs up the wazzoo as the patent basically says if you use matched drivers to lower distortion and it is in a shell designed to be inserted into the ear canal, Jerry Harvey owns it. If Jerry wins this suit, it could have a chilling effect on the entire industry, because essentially Jerry has patented multi-BA (more than 5 per ear) IEMs as a category.
 
Oh, and the Jerry being screwed by UE, Logitech and by extension Westone in the past due to not patenting his work stuff. Could get even more interesting than it already is.
 

 

 

[Mython]

For any longtime followers of this thread who don't yet know - this patent is going under review.

 

[fiascogarcia]

  For any longtime followers of this thread who don't yet know - this patent is going under review.

Man, the wheels of government bureaucracy turn slowly!

 

[Mython]

  Man, the wheels of government bureaucracy turn slowly!

 
 
Yeah...
 
personally, I don't particularly wish either side any loss (or disproportionate gain), from this sorry state of affairs. It'd just be nice to see everyone sheath their swords and play nicely with the available toys without feeling the need to hoard them away from one another, out of an attitude of scarcity.
 
Let's wait & see how the review plays-out, in due course 

 

 

[fzman]

Keep us all posted.

 

[Mython]

Keep us all posted.

The following is several months old (mid Jan 2017), so I don't know the present-day status of the case, but it may be of interest to some of you, nonetheless:

www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/patent-owner-submits-his-own-expert-55126/

 

[goodvibes]

Sounds like that particular patent won't last.

 

[Mython]

Well, it seems it might(!) finally be over, at long last (thanks to shotgunshane for the heads-up)

Make of it what you will:

www.64audio.com/blog/victory-patent-office/


Perhaps it is rather ironic, in light of events and actions that have occurred in between times, with a different (non-electrical) IEM/CIEM-specific technology. Uncomfortably ironic, to this onlooker, actually. I decline to elaborate on what I am referring to, but many of you will be acutely aware of the technology in question, and the parties involved. All I can do is sigh and shake my head in disappointment, and remember one word, the implications of which, I personally consider to be 100% inescapable, regardless of social morality or legalities which might sometimes appear to contradict it, by surface appearances. That one word is 'karma'.