[TowerTalk] Hi-Z Antenna Stuff

[Mike & Becca Krzystyniak]

I'm guessing most companies do not bother to patent novel manufacturing
methods or process related inovation as that stuff is usually rather narrow
in nature.  

The know the company I worked for kept it proprietary as a competitive edge.


Alrighty then...   Back to tower talk...  ;-)



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On 2/7/2012 12:29 PM, Jim Lux wrote:
> On 2/7/12 9:33 AM, Jack/W6NF wrote:
>
>> What the hell did Rausch patent that was so unique and different that 
>> a patent was possible? Or can you patent something whereby everything 
>> is well known but you hold you head just so in the assembly process?
>
> Why, yes, that is EXACTLY what patents are for.  You take things that 
> are ordinary and commonplace and combine them in a new and novel way 
> to produce something of use.
>
> How it is produced could also be part of the patent (that's a "method"
> patent).
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Okay...if the technical aspects of a product is well-known, and not
patentable in and of itself, then only the specifics of production and
packaging are part of the protection of the patent. I've heard about a
pharmaceutical company that attempted to patent a medication on the basis of
alterations in capsule shape and color. I don't believe that got very far.

If the "method" is duplicated that's one thing but if the packaging and
assembly of well-known circuitry is substantially different then what is the
basis for an infringement claim?

There are quite a few of us interested in the answer.


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Jack, W6NF
Silver Springs, NV
DM09ji

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