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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Nikon is Making an Interchangeable Sensor Mirrorless System - Would This be Another GXR?



See:-

http://egami.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2010-11-15-english

The GXR has been proven to be a marketing failure, as I predicted at the very beginning. Well, can you still see it at the streets? :-)


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Anu · 746 weeks ago

The title is false as filing a patent does not mean that there will be anything ever made out of it. Many, if not most patents will never materialize in actual products.
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RiceHigh 110p · 746 weeks ago

They need to at least *make* a prototype before they could file a patent! :-)
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Anu · 746 weeks ago

No they do not. There is no such need for patent filings.
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Ron C · 746 weeks ago

It might depend on the country whether a prototype is necessary to get a patent.
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Anu · 746 weeks ago

That would not be too practical, as a little industrial espionage, or unhappy employee would just too easily ruin the day for any company trying to build a prototype based on an idea. Also the patent office would be overwhelmed by the extra workload (especially in places and times where patent offices are far from the inventor and the infrastructure is poor). Anyhow, I've yet to hear of such a country.
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Ron C · 746 weeks ago

Lots of companies build prototypes before applying for a patent. How does that impact a government office? You are assuming that the government would require that the prototype be delivered to them.
I don't know what the requirements are and neither do you.
Some companies build products for a long time without applying for a patent because they expect to keep the process secret longer than a patent would last.
Good bye.
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RiceHigh 110p · 746 weeks ago

Indeed, this is just a normal workflow for engineering. Engineers don't create things on paper but only scientists do. That's their major difference!
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Anu · 746 weeks ago

No, that is not their major difference. Engineer do not just take lego bricks or other stuff and make machines, but they first plan them, using pen, paper, computer, whatever. Then, if the construction seems like it might be worth anyting, they may patent it, or build or prototype to see if it construction works outside of ther simulator as well.

Usually it is just not worth it to start building prototypes - it is waste of enginering resources, especially if the invention is non-trivial, maybe requiring highly advanced technologies to be used, maybe even more developement of some basic requirements of the machine before (or if) it can actually be built.
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Anu · 746 weeks ago

It is not a requirement in any country I know of.

Especially in the old days it would have ben impossible to drag the prototype of the steam engine, or ships propellor or whatever to the patent office 500km away.
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Anu · 746 weeks ago

http://inventors.about.com/od/prototypes/a/protot...

Evidently in the US before 1880, a prototype was required. However, this was not the case in at least some of the european countries.

Today (in the US) no prototypes required.

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