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In Reply to: Re: Wrong- read about it here posted by Brian Cheney on October 21, 2005 at 10:51:09:
"The implementation for planar speakers is new and sufficiently different from prior art to warrant issuance of a patent to me."I'm patent examiner myself and deal with prior art search, judgement on novelty and inventive step every day.
As you might know, a patent is granted for inventions which are new AND involve an inventive step. Using a known device/solution in a similar application may not be considered as being inventive since the skilled person, in this case the speaker designer, would recognize the known technical advantages of the known device/solution and simply implement them. Your waveguide on a planar speaker may well be new, but if there were similar waveguides used on cone driver speakers I for one would raise an objection for reasons of lack of invenive step.
Of course, it depends on what prior art the examiner is able to retrieve during his search. Note that there is lots of prior art that has never made its way into a commercialized product so you may not be aware of that art.
Klaus
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Follow Ups
- Novelty and inventive step - KlausR. 02:57:24 10/23/05 (2)
- Re: Novelty and inventive step - Brian Cheney 12:04:09 10/23/05 (1)
- Re: Novelty and inventive step - KlausR. 00:27:25 10/24/05 (0)
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