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previous: WolfeMacleod BTW, if you look closely, you'll no... -- 9/11/2002 11:33 PM

Re: Dimarzio the thief

9/11/2002 11:50 PM
SK	Re: Dimarzio the thief patents are only as good as your bank acount. Fwiw, the HS2 is a stack with dummy as are several others, I think the HS2 was even earlier. Kinmans main point for patent on his pickups is/was the fingered shielding device that deperates the coils, which is unique. I don't know about the other designs uniqueness. It's amazing what can be patented, and a patent doesn't necessarily mean your idea is safe (or original). I have provisional patents on a couple designs, but they will expire and I will let them, because I couldn't defend a full patent anyways. Some things confuse the hell out of me. Like the Dimarzio double creme trademark. I think Gibson did that first...Ok, you had to pull the covers to see it, but that was common. There's a patent for a humbucker where the main difference between any other design is the use of differing coil wire guages for the sperate coils. (How's that so special?) Both are active in that design which allows you to use a smaller coil of finer wire for a Dummy. A dummy does need to be balanced, and it may require more windings, different wire guage, or "slugs" but you don't want it "active" (IMO) if it's going to be "seperated" and buried under the pickguard somewhere with the wiring and such.. Actually, I think there was a patent for something like that....

9/11/2002 11:50 PM

Re: Dimarzio the thief

patents are only as good as your bank acount. Fwiw, the HS2 is a stack with dummy as are several others, I think the HS2 was even earlier. Kinmans main point for patent on his pickups is/was the fingered shielding device that deperates the coils, which is unique. I don't know about the other designs uniqueness. It's amazing what can be patented, and a patent doesn't necessarily mean your idea is safe (or original). I have provisional patents on a couple designs, but they will expire and I will let them, because I couldn't defend a full patent anyways. Some things confuse the hell out of me. Like the Dimarzio double creme trademark. I think Gibson did that first...Ok, you had to pull the covers to see it, but that was common. There's a patent for a humbucker where the main difference between any other design is the use of differing coil wire guages for the sperate coils. (How's that so special?) Both are active in that design which allows you to use a smaller coil of finer wire for a Dummy.
A dummy does need to be balanced, and it may require more windings, different wire guage, or "slugs" but you don't want it "active" (IMO) if it's going to be "seperated" and buried under the pickguard somewhere with the wiring and such.. Actually, I think there was a patent for something like that....