Patent Moveable Vehicle Exterior Panel (Maybe R1LT?)

[srnyoung]

I’m saying that material that is clearly public domain should not be allowed to be patented many years later. The copyright and patent system has been broken for years. I’m not against patents or copyrights, just abuse and trolling.

In the case of Happy Birthday, it was public domain. Warner Music copyrighted it, and collected millions. In 2016, it was reversed and they had to pay damages. It was lucrative, but not now, as it never should have been.

“In a coda to one of the most notable music copyright lawsuits in years, the Warner Music Group has agreed to pay $14 million to settle claims over “Happy Birthday to You,” after a judge ruled last year that the company’s long-claimed copyright to the famous song was invalid.

Warner Music, through its publishing subsidiary Warner/Chappell, agreed after mediation to pay the settlement to a class of “thousands of people and entities” who had paid licensing fees to use the song since 1949, according to filings in federal court on Monday.”

Thanks for the [kind] correction. Not sure why I thought it was Disney and I’m surprised I missed the “coda”…

Anyway, I thought the idea of capitalism was to collect every last dime for oneself regardless of the damage it does to society!? At least, that’s what I am learning over on the RIVN stock traders thread…

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[Zoidz]

Bingo. The person who files first gets the patent. The patent office just determines If a patent for the proposed thing already Exists, and if not it determines if the idea is unique enough to issue a patent for. If those criteria are met they issue the patent and it becomes the property of the person who filed.

Doesn’t matter if someone else invented it and has been using it without a patent unless that person also had filed a patent and can prove they have an application too.

The wheel was approved and patented in 2001 in Australia. He was first to do it, so it must be legit? Now he could collect royalties or file a lawsuit on EVERYTHING that has a wheel. It's a broken system.

Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel Prize, has put together a fascinating history of people patenting the wheel, including one inventor that did it to prove how ridiculous Australia's patent system was and another that put wheels on a wheel so it could wheel while it wheels. From the article: "I discovered today that the Australian patent office has — quietly — revoked the patent it granted, in the year 2001, for the wheel. The patent office had awarded Innovation Patent #2001100012 to John Keogh of Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia. Keogh’s application called his invention a “circular transportation facilitation device.” I became acquainted with Mr. Keogh when we awarded him — and the Australian Patent Office — an Ig Nobel Prize, in 2001."

 

[Donald Stanfield]

The wheel was approved and patented in 2001 in Australia. He was first to do it, so it must be legit? Now he could collect royalties or file a lawsuit on EVERYTHING that has a wheel. It's a broken system.

Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel Prize, has put together a fascinating history of people patenting the wheel, including one inventor that did it to prove how ridiculous Australia's patent system was and another that put wheels on a wheel so it could wheel while it wheels. From the article: "I discovered today that the Australian patent office has — quietly — revoked the patent it granted, in the year 2001, for the wheel. The patent office had awarded Innovation Patent #2001100012 to John Keogh of Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia. Keogh’s application called his invention a “circular transportation facilitation device.” I became acquainted with Mr. Keogh when we awarded him — and the Australian Patent Office — an Ig Nobel Prize, in 2001."

My comment was not on the merits of the current system nor should it be taken as commentary as to said system's effectiveness. It was just a comment on how it works now and the reasoning the office uses to granting patents.

 

[moosehead]

Posted by Jonny Lieberman on Instagram. Looks to be a bunch of Rivian filed storage and slide out patents for a truck bed. Unsure if it is for R2T or R1Next?

Cue the Camp Kitchen and Tonneau Cover jokes.

http://instagr.am/p/Cq38wodPvf1/

 

[kanundrum]

Repost from like 6 days ago, these people are late ?

https://www.rivianforums.com/forum/threads/patent-moveable-vehicle-exterior-panel-maybe-r1lt.14148/

 

[moosehead]

My bad.

Slinks away.

 

[Calvin2518]

NO SNOWPLOW? literally unacceptable.

 

[Zoidz]

It will be a feature on the R1N (as in Never). IMO this is Rivian playing in the Patent Blocking Game. ?

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