Digital BW, The Print

Hi Wendel.
In your case it's not quite the same. Anyone can go and stand in your
footsteps,use the same film,camera,tripod, time of day etc etc and
duplicate your results freely without transgressing anything. They
just cannot take your specific physical image and copy it. If people
are doing that to Epsons cartridges and selling them they are at risk.

The problems arise because patents are worded in such a
way(deliberately of course) as to attempt to include any and all
variations or future changes no matter how distant from the origonal
concept so as to maintain a stranglehold on a market.

Because the Epson's of the world have much deeper pockets than any
small entreprenure they can often muscle out the competition just by
creating costly obstacles to doing business. It is usually only
temporarily effective though.

Regards
Duane




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@...m, Wendel White
<wendel@...> wrote:
>
> Maybe invent was a poorly chosen word. Nevertheless, a unique
combination of
> materials is generally considered to be protected, though I would be the
> first to admit that my knowledge is rather limited in this area. I
just want
> to be considerate of what might be an effort not unlike my own when
I make a
> photograph. I did not invent any aspect of the materials that I use
(in fact
> in many cases the subject of work is not in any way unique [i.e. a
portrait,
> a building, a landscape, that all may have been photographed
before]) yet I
> consider (and so does the US copyright office) that my particular
> combination is unique and therefore protected. My question was, is
that very
> different from the work of a manufacturing designer? Maybe I am not
seeing
> this clearly. 
> 
> Wendel
> 
> > Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Epson Lawsuit -- MIS
> > 
> > Pardon me, but Epson did not 'invent' the 'O' ring, or foam pads.
> >    
> >   Tom Baker
>