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At 06:31 PM 10/18/2002, Stuart Wyatt wrote: >I heard a rumour from a music shop here in Paris that the EDP+ might be >unavailable in France due to a patent issue. I know that the Repeater was >banned for sale in France due to the same reason... I'm familiar with that patent - it's Emmanuel Perille's, inventor of the DJRND. In my opinion there is nothing to worry about for the EDP because: a) the claims don't cover the technology in the Echoplex. They mainly pertain to a method for doing multi-track loops. b) the echoplex was in production many years before this patent was filed, so if the claims of the patent were found to cover the same innovations as the echoplex, the echoplex would serve as prior art and the patent would be ruled invalid. Electrix actually asked my opinion about this a couple of years ago because they were hoping to find some existing device to serve as prior art. For some of the claims there probably is prior art that could invalidate them. However, I didn't know of any for the multi-track related claims that might have specifically related to the Repeater. The Repeater wasn't out yet at that time so I didn't really know how it would work exactly, but I did suspect that they might be infringing on Emmanuel's patent. kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com