microtonal patents

Google has launched a new patent search engine:

http://www.google.com/patents

if you do a search for "microtonal" you get 19 hits, and some
interesting stuff. Here for example is a 1966 patent application for a
"Device Which Accommodates Removable Frets on any Fretted String
Instrument":

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT3273439&id=tD1nAAAAEBAJ&jtp=1#PPA6,M1

OMG heres a guy trying to patent colors for notes:

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6930235&id=IdkUAAAAEBAJ&dq=microtonal

hehe fun stuff!

Dante

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Dante Rosati" <danterosati@...> wrote:
>
> Google has launched a new patent search engine:
>
> http://www.google.com/patents
>
> if you do a search for "microtonal" you get 19 hits, and some
> interesting stuff. Here for example is a 1966 patent application for
a
> "Device Which Accommodates Removable Frets on any Fretted String
> Instrument":
>
> http://www.google.com/patents?
vid=USPAT3273439&id=tD1nAAAAEBAJ&jtp=1#PPA6,M1
>
> OMG heres a guy trying to patent colors for notes:
>
> http://www.google.com/patents?
vid=USPAT6930235&id=IdkUAAAAEBAJ&dq=microtonal
>
> hehe fun stuff!
>
> Dante
>

Mostly older ones,
/makemicromusic/database

Clark

Dante Rosati wrote:

> OMG heres a guy trying to patent colors for notes:
>
> http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6930235&id=IdkUAAAAEBAJ&dq=microtonal

Can you patent that?

And he's got it arranged by fifths starting at some arbitrary color, instead of the more logical way here: http://www.lucytune.com/new_to_lt/pitch_04.html

~D.

> Dante Rosati wrote:
>
> > OMG heres a guy trying to patent colors for notes:
> >
> > http://www.google.com/patents?
> > vid=USPAT6930235&id=IdkUAAAAEBAJ&dq=microtonal
>
> Can you patent that?

You can patent anything, as long as somebody isn't obviously
already doing the same thing. It's left to the courts to
decide if your patent is worth anything.

-Carl