Hi Austin,that sounds right to me. IME often the "famous" guy in a company is the guy with the best personal PR skills, not necessarily the one with the most talent/influence. I would be very surprised if it were true that the person named in the patent was not the inventor. Maybe Kingslake is one of the personal PR guys and likes people to think he did more than he actually did???
The literature is not always/often too reliable. GRD Frank On 5 Oct, 2009, at 17:19, Austin Franklin wrote:
Hi Marc,Well, no, the name on a patent often has very little reflection on who actually designed the lens.In US patent law, if they guy who actually came up with any design elementsthat are being patented wasn't included in the patent, that, from my experience, would be grounds for dismissing the patent. Regards, Austin --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org- Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list
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