Kemper Patent
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No idea but it's the first time I check out that forum... wow. Some of these trolls would benefit from getting out of their cave and have some exposure to the pro scene to see what's going on. Ignorance is bliss I guess.
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Patents are generally protected for 17 years. IF the below information is accurate, 2021 is not.
Musical instrument with acoustic transducer
- Publication number: 20080134867 Abstract: The musical instrument has a acoustic transducer, which transforms an excitation signal generated by at least one resonator into an acoustic signal. The acoustic transducer is provided with an adjustable oscillation profile, in which at least one profile parameter is defined by a reference profile of a reference instrument. Type: Application Filed: July 27, 2007 Publication date: June 12, 2008 Inventor: Christoph Kemper
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Don't get me wrong, but this is a other Patent regarding to an intelligent pickup system.
https://register.dpma.de/DPMAr…egister?AKZ=1020060351886And this one is the Kone i think.
https://register.dpma.de/DPMAr…egister?AKZ=1020151109387
But the Profiler is this:
https://register.dpma.de/DPMAr…egister?AKZ=1020190058550
as you can see on the bottom someone has objected to the patent extension. -
Collectively, those people need to get out more…maybe find a nice girl or guy to talk to. Live a little, y’know?
FWIW - All of Lego’s patents expired in the early 2000’s. They fought to extend them and lost.
This doesn’t seem to have affected them a whole lot,
Reverse engineering a plastic brick is a whole lot easier than figuring out Profiling. -
Hm had a look over there. Didn't find it that bad.
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Hm had a look over there. Didn't find it that bad.
Maybe its my virgin ears….
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Updated: You can have a patent extended but not indefinitely. However, the Kemper software is copyrighted forever just like music is, so no chance of someone else making a Kemper knockoff, but China could do it whenever they want.
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Don’t bother about it. Sour grapes. They have been making EXACTLY (by them I also mean Cliff) since the axefx standard, when the kemper was first announced and had not even been released. I’m not making that up,go and check. Yet here we are ,three fractal hardware versions ,10 years and thousands of pounds later and it’s exactly thesame argument. The reaction on the fractal forums, particularly the totally unprofessional and downright rude ones from Cliff himself were downright condescending. Since then there has been an awful out of effort put into trying to ‘better” the Kemper. Someone has been talking a lot of b$$locks for the last 10 years……
