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bluefete wrote:timelapse wrote:Steel pan already trademark in the US.No big
Do you know the story behind that?
2 Yankees realized the pan was not trademarked / patented in the USA and decided to make a play.
The Manning administration almost had a heart attack when they heard about it and went into full overdrive mode to overturn it. They had to build a case to show the pan originated from T&T and fortunately they GT.
Now, this comes back to my point about how dotish our leaders are.
Pan was in existence for almost 60 years when that happened.
We did not learn anything from the Rum and Coca Cola fiasco in the 1940's.
Time to teach some real history in school.
"The shift from the MIDI Pan actually came about through patent issues, so they decided to refocus the patent and make it more general and applicable and relevant to the steel pan. The evolution to the PHI was gradual.
“The MIDI was an exact replication of what the [conventional] steelpan was, just with current technology applied to it. The PHI has extended the possibilities, a lot of the ideas, features and capabilities incorporated into the PHI were not even thought of in the MIDI Pan,” said Byron, who coordinates all activities of the team involved in its production, research and development and marketing and distribution." ...
“The idea was that steelpan came from the communities and it was responsible for reducing a lot of crime [decades ago], and it gave the pannist an avenue to go out and travel and express themselves. It is the same idea, there is so much crime and violence, we were trying to provide an alternative to young people by introducing them to a new instrument, and an alternative way of expressing themselves,” said Byron.
The pannist inspired the PHI and now the PHI is inspiring pannists—as it was in the beginning, so it is at the end.
However, several 2002/2003 articles said the innovators, including UWI senior engineering lecturer Clement Imbert, did not apply for a patent because they did not have enough money and because government advisers said the process would be too arduous, thus leaving the door open for others to take advantage of the situation. But there has been some progress. A US tenor pan patent in which Trinidad-born American Trevor King claimed to originate an arrangement of notes called the Cycle of Fifths was revoked last year when the Trinidad and Tobago Government provided evidence that the pattern was identical to that developed by local steelpan pioneer Anthony Williams in the 1940s.Oral testimonies, meanwhile, place the origin of the pan to backyard inventors of the 1920s and 1930s, which suggests that modern innovators are benefiting while the pioneers remain unrecognised.The current dispute between a government and some UWI engineers and technicians surrounding ownership in the digital and electronic age, now adds a different dimension to the continuing saga of the steelpan.On the one hand, while it shows up glaring deficiencies in the knowledge of high education administrators about IP issues, it gives new cause for research and development institutions in the region to inspect and upgrade the status of their IP arrangements with staff, associates and funders, as it promises to test the UWI policy on paper and in practice.
The US steelpan patent that rocked Trinidad and Tobago 20 years ago has lapsed on “fee-related” grounds and the patent is now listed for official expiration on June 23.
Dizzy28 wrote:^^ US Patents last for 20 years. If you have no intention of commercializing your product doesn't make sense wasting money on a patent.
Dizzy28 wrote:^^ US Patents last for 20 years. If you have no intention of commercializing your product doesn't make sense wasting money on a patent.
Soul Collector wrote:Dizzy28 wrote:^^ US Patents last for 20 years. If you have no intention of commercializing your product doesn't make sense wasting money on a patent.
Just came across the article where it lapsed after the 20 years...stuck it at the end of my previous post.
Man bluefete, if I had only known some of this back when I used to play a lil pan in school, I may have been more intrigued by it, who knows? Good stuff though and definitely worthy of sharing with the youth. If only the leaders cared about the real culture and history of our country and tried to promote that instead of the usual BS everyone knows all too well.
Soul Collector wrote:Dizzy28 wrote:^^ US Patents last for 20 years. If you have no intention of commercializing your product doesn't make sense wasting money on a patent.
Just came across the article where it lapsed after the 20 years...stuck it at the end of my previous post.
Man bluefete, if I had only known some of this back when I used to play a lil pan in school, I may have been more intrigued by it, who knows? Good stuff though and definitely worthy of sharing with the youth. If only the leaders cared about the real culture and history of our country and tried to promote that instead of the usual BS everyone knows all too well.
Dizzy28 wrote:PHI and G pan patent gonna expire soon. We the taxpayers spent TT$33.8m on the development and patenting of those two. Wonder what the ROI has been?
bluefete wrote:Take a read:
T&T is getting REAL FREE publicity. Carnival 2022 will be lit.
https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/michael-b- ... 34337.html
https://theshaderoom.com/michael-b-jord ... d-jouvert/
https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/michae ... uvert-rum/
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