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Some of those are really surprising. Notably the Monopoly one (I would have though that would be a copyright) and the floppy disk one (filed 1995, really?).
by gherkin0 11y ago
Some of those are really surprising. Notably the Monopoly one (I would have though that would be a copyright) and the floppy disk one (filed 1995, really?).
- stormbrew 11y agoMonopoly the name and logo would be trademarked. Monopoly's board design and text would be copyrighted. Monopoly's mechanism of action (how you play the game) would be patented. More or less, IANAL, etc.
- rzzzt 11y agoA patent for an early 3-inch disk and drive mechanism was filed in 1980 [1]. The inventor was working on it since the early seventies [2]. [1] https://www.google.com/patents/WO1981001906A1 https://www.google.com/patents/WO1981001906A1 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_floppy_disk#The_3-inch_compact_floppy_disk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_floppy_disk#The...
- nkozyra 11y agoElectric guitar in 1959, too. That's a very long time between invention and patent (unless a previous one had expired).
- qbrass 11y agoIt's a patent for the shape of the guitar, not electric guitars themselves.
- qbrass 11y agoThe dog watch that keeps time at 7x normal speed.