Who are the customers for rip-off products?

[Jade]

the design of a transistor is supposedly public knowledge. but it can be easily made a trade secret and patented.

the operation of a diode is taught in all solid state physics classes. but this could easily be patented.

how do you distinguish what is going to be an IPR? Would solid state physics be complete without knowledge of diodes and transistors?

why not patent band theory too and keep that secret?

why not patent the idea of an atom?

why not patent the entire theory of quantum physics, so only Germany can legally use quantum physics?

Yes, I agree with you that there is a thin line between the two; however, we can make a distinction between the two based on the funding. Any research that is funded by public funds cannot be IPR property, while the research that is funded by private funds/companies may have the IPR status

 

[Götterdämmerung]

Yes, I agree with you that there is a thin line between the two; however, we can make a distinction between the two based on the funding. Any research that is funded by public funds cannot be IPR property, while the research that is funded by private funds/companies may have the IPR status

The Frauenhofer Institut is a public funded research institute in Germany and the inventor of mp3, but mp3 is patented by the Frauenhofer Institute and companies using the coding technology have to pay them royalty.

 

[Cheetah786]

they take pride in original brand 555, not some 5SS. There is a difference between rip-off and cheap products

My point was if people wants what the want but the Finances restrict getting the original they become creative.

 

[Jade]

The Frauenhofer Institut is a public funded research institute in Germany and the inventor of mp3, but mp3 is patented by the Frauenhofer Institute and companies using the coding technology have to pay them royalty.

MP3 is a patented format from Moving Picture Experts Group(MPEG). MPEG is started by Hiroshi Yasuda of NTT, Japan and Leonardo Chiariglione, Italy

http://users.ipfw.edu/reddpv01/mp3Genesis.pdf

 

[Götterdämmerung]

MP3 is a patented format from Moving Picture Experts Group(MPEG). MPEG is started by Hiroshi Yasuda of NTT, Japan and Leonardo Chiariglione, Italy

http://users.ipfw.edu/reddpv01/mp3Genesis.pdf

MP3 is an audio-specific format that was designed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) as part of its MPEG-1 standard and later extended in MPEG-2 standard. The first MPEG subgroup – Audio group was formed by several teams of engineers at Fraunhofer IIS, University of Hannover, AT&T-Bell Labs, Thomson-Brandt, CCETT, and others. ...

MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2 encoding began as the Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) project managed by Egon Meier-Engelen of the Deutsche Forschungs- und Versuchsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt (later on called Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, German Aerospace Center) in Germany. The European Community financed this project, commonly known as EU-147 (or Eureka 147), from 1987 to 1994 as a part of the EUREKA research program. MUSICAM Audio Coding was developed as part of the Eureka 147 project and has been subject to the standardization process within the ISO/Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG).

MP3 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Only AT&T and Thomson-Brandt are private companies (albeit receiving billions of research funds from tax money), all the others are mostly German public institutes or French public institutes.

 

[jbond197]

Rip-offs should RIP. Who the hell is world will feel good drinking coffee from "StarFucks" and wearing "PIMP" caps? Only guys who don't know what these words really means would probably go for them but then the point is - if they are illiterate of this level then would an International really matter to them? I doubt.. For some f.i.l.t.h.y rich Germans, it may matter though..

 

[below_freezing]

Yes, I agree with you that there is a thin line between the two; however, we can make a distinction between the two based on the funding. Any research that is funded by public funds cannot be IPR property, while the research that is funded by private funds/companies may have the IPR status

The transistor was developed at Fairchild Semiconductor and Texas Instruments, both private companies, in the 50's. However, the transistor diffused to other companies much faster than the 30 year patent limits would have implied.