[linux-audio-user] Re: Korg Keyboard running Linux

[Rick B]

Juhana Sadeharju wrote:

>Have you ever wondered why the new OASYS, Nord Modular G2, etc.
>have digital rotary knobs with the LED lights on the base
>of the knob? The knobs have a problem: when one does not look at
>the knobs from top, the LEDs are hidden by the knob itself and
>thus the value may go unseen.
>
>It appears that Euphonix (http://www.euphonix.com) has a patent
>on the knob where the LEDs are on the top of the knob (instead
>of base). LEDs are always visible.
>
>Why I wanted to tell all this is that prior the patent, when
>we had an electronics club at our elementary school, we came
>up with this patented knob design -- and we thought and laughed
>that it already must have been patented multiple times. Wrong.
>
>I have made an alternative design by now.
>
>Juhana
>  
>
When something as simple as that kind of functionality can be patened, 
you know something is wrong with the patent process.

                   Rick B