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[rick]

ah-now this dialog is that which attracted me to

this forum---the tech forum-----and also to erics

forum as well (this particularly, as with pi--little

discrimination--still wracking my brains though)

reg-rick

[Carl]

Re: LRL Patent Questions and possible answers

>Carl : Begins to make one wonder why they, manufactures/vendors, don't at least copywrite the name and drawings of their units? After all copywrite does not laspe quickly like a pattent does. Unless I am wrong patents become open after 7 years, while copyrights are almost forever, also much cheaper, last I looked $10..00. Regards Marc And thanks for answering in the contsct it was meant.

Actually, copyrights are essentially free. All you have to do is put a standard copyright notice on something and it's legal. A few of the pages I have online are copyrighted, not out of vanity but because I want to retain the legal rights to my efforts.

Patents last 20 years, but they are fairly expensive to get and you have to pay maintenance fees to keep them enforcable. There are two types of patents: technical and design (ornamental). Design patents are for look-and-feel, not operation. There are several design patents on dowsing rods which means you cannot make another one to look like them. To my knowledge only one LRL has been issued a technical patent.

- Carl

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