Don’t recall if this has been posted yet, pics and words from the recent Schiitr meet,
https://audio-head.com/sitting-down-with-the-schiit-ragnarok-2-sol-and-aegir/.
Wow that new Ragnarok is huge!
Don’t recall if this has been posted yet, pics and words from the recent Schiitr meet,
https://audio-head.com/sitting-down-with-the-schiit-ragnarok-2-sol-and-aegir/.
Patents actually afford zero protection, while showing exactly what you're doing to everyone. Add a large legal budget and a team of lawyers and lots of time, and sure, you can protect your patent by suing infringers into submission, but that's not a viable business model for us. I doubt if you'd like to see $500 Modis and $5000 Vidars. (And we wouldn't last long making them.)
This made me laugh because being a patent lawyer is what I do when I'm not listening to music.
It is true that there is always a risk that your patent application never grants, at least in a commercially valuable form. But since you guys seem to be doing stuff that is actually innovative, I would say this risk is quite low.
You are right that patents are expensive. Filing an application and prosecuting it through to grant can easily cost $50 grand. Employing a trade secret strategy is smart where your innovation is difficult to reverse engineer.
But if you think that patents really afford zero protection, you need to speak to better patent lawyers and better IP strategists.
Don’t recall if this has been posted yet, pics and words from the recent Schiitr meet,
https://audio-head.com/sitting-down-with-the-schiit-ragnarok-2-sol-and-aegir/.
You're missing my point. You'd said that "windows" is a common word and Microsoft had achieved the impossible by trademarking it. So have Apple, and Target, and countless others with common words also achieved the impossible? Nobody else can name their department store Target, even with a different logo.
With respect to Windows, Microsoft was initially denied the trademark in 1993 because the terminology of "window" was already starting to be used in the computer industry. Microsoft argued that "Windows" with a capital W and ending with an s, and referring to an operating system was unique, and they were later granted the trademark in 1995. They have not trademarked a common word but a very specific usage.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/we-own-windows-trademark-microsoft/
AND, a trademark can often be restricted to the "trade," meaning just because someone else has applied a TM to the word "Monster" in one industry, it may or may not apply to another industry, regardless of what the TM owner might like. So I can call my power drink Monster and not infringe on an electronics company's trademark.
Great ... thanks for the return to partial sanity
One letter away from a sleep aid, right? (Implies that it’s vewwy vewwy qwiet.) Apologies. Just funnin’.When I read "unison USB", I assume it's some sort of uniting interface that can handle any kind of USB.
There is one ....starts with an E and are known for power amps. Though they don't go quite in to the depth of where all the individual source materials are coming from.That's easy ... None!
You mean Apple, of course......
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