[rollei_list] Re: Patents and Lens Designs
- From: "Austin Franklin" <austin.franklin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 13:31:14 -0400
Hi Marc,
You're welcome. How this relates to international patents is an area that I
know nothing about. But, I do know people who would know the answers, and
I'll ask.
Regards,
Austin
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> [mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Marc James Small
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> At 12:49 PM 10/6/2009, Austin Franklin wrote:
> >No problem:
>
> Thank you. Your scholarship is extensive and
> impressive. Now take a look for, say, patents
> issued to Dr Mandler. We KNOW what lenses he
> designed and for which the optical industry
> credits him -- after Bertele, he was the most
> significant optical designer of the past
> century. And his name is not on the
> patents. So, I guess, in the end, all of the
> Zeiss and Leitz/Leica patents are invalid. Most
> interesting. I'm surprised that no one has ever challenged any of these.
>
> I suspect that there is a large amount of
> daylight between practice and theory at play
> here. Perhaps the US recognizes foreign patents
> which have been domesticated? That is, perhaps
> the position you cite does not apply when a
> German company first patents in, say,
> Liechenstein, and then registers the patent here?
>
> See, for instance, Kreis, FESTSCHRIFT, DR h.c.l.
> BERTELE, Wild Heerbrugg, 1971, where it is
> humorously noted that Bertele managed to keep his
> name of the patents for his many lens designs.
>
> Marc
>
>
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> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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