Wapin Bridge

[Allan L. Gilreath, RPT]

Richard,

Purely out of curiosity, what unexpired patents are the S folks using in
current production?  Most of the ones that I can think of date back quite a
few years...

Allan
Allan L. Gilreath, RPT
agilreath@mindspring.com

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf Of
Richard Brekne
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 4:44 PM
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: Re: Wapin Bridge

I got just one thing to say to this... no dissrespect intended mind you..
grin

BALONEY !

If there is a reason why we have such a poor industry..it is more likely
that
it has to do with an over emphasis a protectionist mode of competing. Put
plainly it dont mean a darn who knows your secrets... they will find them
out
anyways... All that matters in the end is who is best at putting them into
practice..

Perhaps you were not aware that even Steinway gave up on holding on too
these
patents with such an over driven sense of protectionism... They, in the end,
realized...... information is only a relatively small part of the picture
after all.

Grin... soapboxes are kinda fun arent they ??

Larry J Messerly wrote:

> And this is one reason why we have such a poor industry as far as
> reimbursing creative talent.  People photocopying books deprive authors
> of legitimate pay for their time and talent, people copying musical tapes
> or discs now, deprive the performer, and composer of legitimate income.
> If we really want to deprive this country of creative talent and
> incentive to improve, lets just get rid of the patent office and
> copyright laws and level the playing field to mediocrity.
>
> Larry Messerly (On his soapbox)
>
> >
> > Be that as it may.. the patent office is open for viewing and I
> > personally am
> > going to download a copy of whatever I find on Wapin and figure it
> > out on my
> > own.

--
Richard Brekne
Associate PTG, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway