Russell IP

20/07/2022

🤘This week's Rockin’ Patent® – Nippon Columbia Co Ltd’s “Automatic Rhythm Instrument” 🤘

🎵 This appears to be one of the many patents relating to early electronic drum machines. This automatic rhythm instrument was capable of electronically producing various rhythms in the ‘characteristic tones of a drum, a piccolo and so on.’ For a take on Nippon Columbia Co Ltd’s role in the history of drum machines, see the full post on the Russell IP website (linked to below) 🎵

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13/07/2022

🤘This week's Rockin’ Patent® – Arnfred R. Strathmann’s “Flute Mouthpiece With Adjustable Core Gap”🤘

🎵 This patent appears to relate to the adjustable block of the sound unit for models of the Mollenhauer Harmonic recorder. This consists of a ‘knurled-head screw at the back of the head joint that allows for the adjustment of the windway exit by slightly lowering or raising the block at this point’, enabling special variations in sound as a direct result of those alterations to the size of the windway exit. 🎵

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06/07/2022

🤘This week's Rockin’ Patent® – Roland Corporation’s “Keyboard Device” 🤘

🎵This patent appears to relate to Roland’s FP-10 digital piano. Roland Corporation claim that the FP-10’s PHA-4 keyboard ‘delivers the responsive feel of a fine acoustic piano, with every nuance whether you play hard or soft captured by Roland’s touch-detection technology.’ For a detailed take on the mechanics behind the Roland FP-10 and for more general information on this digital piano, see the full post on the Russell IP website (linked to below) 🎵

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02/07/2022

The UK Government has published a consultation outcome on
"Artificial Intelligence and IP: copyright and patents".

One point the publication makes, which I think is worth repeating, is that AI-assisted inventions may still be patentable even if the AI can't be named as an inventor:

"Other Patent issues

78. We are concerned that the recent publicity about naming an AI system as an inventor risks the incorrect conclusion that UK patent law does not protect AI-assisted inventions. A patent may in fact be granted for an AI-assisted invention provided the application satisfies the legal requirements set out in the UK Patents Act 1977".

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/artificial-intelligence-and-ip-copyright-and-patents/outcome/artificial-intelligence-and-intellectual-property-copyright-and-patents-government-response-to-consultation



https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/artificial-intelligence-and-ip-copyright-and-patents/outcome/artificial-intelligence-and-intellectual-property-copyright-and-patents-government-response-to-consultation

29/06/2022

🤘This week's Rockin’ Patent® – Georges Eugène Frédéric Kastner’s “Improvement In Pyrophones” 🤘

🎵 This appears to be one of the patents that relate to Georges Frédéric Eugène Kastner’s ‘pyrophone’ musical instrument that combines fire and sound; musical sounds are produced by the vibration of flames of hydrogen gas with glass or other tubes. Other names for the instrument include ‘fire organ’ or ‘explosion organ’. For a detailed take on the pyrophone, see the full post on the Russell IP website (linked to below) 🎵

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25/06/2022

-- The Queen's Awards for Enterprise --

In case you missed it, applications for The Queen's Awards for Enterprise are open: https://www.gov.uk/queens-awards-for-enterprise.

A few extracts that may be especially useful to our network are below:

"Innovation

To apply for the Innovation award, you must also:

· have an innovation that has not been sold before
· have had your innovation available on the market for at least 2 years
· have recovered all the investments made in your innovation or show that the innovation will recover its full costs in future
· show outstanding commercial success as a result of innovation over 2 years - or continuous commercial success over 5 years
Your innovation should be in one of the following categories:

· invention, design or production of goods
· performance of services
· marketing and distribution
· after-sale support of goods or services"

"Apply

The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are free to enter. You can apply for more than one award.

You’ll need to:

· create an account and register your details
· answer questions about your eligibility - this should take less than 15 minutes
· submit your application by midday on 6 September 2022"

The Queen's Awards for Enterprise - how to enter, online entry forms, guidance notes, deadline, nominations, award categories

08/06/2022

🤘This week's Rockin’ Patent® – Aaron H Kipness’ “Attachment Device For Stringed Instrument And Coupling System For Use With The Same”🤘

🎵 This patent appears to relate to the ‘Gizmotron 2.0’; a mechanical bowing device that attaches to an electric guitar or bass, allowing users to produce string sounds such as cello, viola or violin. On their website, Gizmotron outlines the history of the device: it was originally invented in the mid-1970s by Lol Crème and Kevin Godley of 10cc but was a ‘commercial failure’. The device was redeveloped by the inventor, Aaron Kipness, and resulted in the Gizmotron 2.0. For more information, see the full post on the Russell IP website (linked to below) 🎵

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25/05/2022

🤘This week's Rockin’ Patent® – Flexound Systems Oy’s “Apparatus For Comprehensive Perception Of Sound” 🤘

🎵 This patent appears to relate to the Flexound Augmented Audio technology that claims to create an ‘immersive listening experience that you can feel as well as can hear’. The technology involves radiating vibration through foam, embedded into seats, cushions or any soft material in contact with the body to create what the assignee claims is a ‘multisensory experience … accessible to more people, such as those with impaired hearing’ that can be used for music and other sound content. If you’re curious to know more, see the full post on the Russell IP website (linked to below). 🎵

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18/05/2022

🤘This week's Rockin’ Patent® – Steve Mann’s “Acoustic, Hyperacoustic, Or Electrically Amplified Hydraulophones Or Multimedia Interfaces”🤘

🎵 This patent appears to relate to Steve Mann’s ‘Hydraulophone’; a tonal instrument that produces music by employing water power through a long tube. The tube has various holes that produce the sound when pumps force the water through the tube. If you’d like to hear it in action, or if you'd like more information, see the full post on the Russell IP website (linked to below). 🎵

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11/05/2022

🤘This week's Rockin’ Design Patent: Teenage Engineering AB’s “Synthesizer” | US Design Patent No. D738,348🤘

🎵This design patent appears to relate to Teenage Engineering AB’s ‘Pocket Operator’, a miniature programmable synthesiser and sequencer with built in sounds and effects. With no outer case, it consists of a single multiple-layer circuit board using components placed under the LCD display. Teenage Engineering AB claims that these are ‘small, ultra-portable music devices, with studio quality sound’. If you’re curious for more information and to hear the Pocket Operator in action, see the link below. 🎵

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05/05/2022

🤘This week's Rockin’ Patent®: Sen Gorkem’s “A Musical Instrument” | PCT Patent Application No. WO 2013/172803 A4🤘

🎵 This patent application appears to relate to the ‘Yaybahar’ invented by Gorkem Sen; an acoustic instrument in which vibrations from strings are transmitted via coiled springs to frame drums. Those vibrations are converted into sound by the membranes which echo on the coiled springs. If you’re curious to know more about the Yaybahar, see here (https://www.gorkemsen.com/gorkem-sen-s-yaybahar). To hear how it sounds, see here (https://www.gorkemsen.com/videos) for a video.🎵

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27/04/2022

🤘This week's Rockin’ Patent®: Nura Holdings Pty Ltd’s “Personalization Of Auditory Stimulus” | US Patent No. 9,497,530🤘

🎵 This patent appears to relate to Nura Holdings Pty Ltd’s ‘Nuraphone’ headphones. Inside the ear cups is a pair of earbuds that sit in the top part of the ear canal. These play high mids and treble while mids and bass notes are reproduced by a large driver in the main body of the ear cup. Nura claims that the headphones automatically learn and adapt to users’ hearing using small, sensitive microphones embedded inside each ear cup, detecting the user’s response to the audio signal. This signal is then modified to achieve desired hearing. If you’re curious to learn more about the mechanics, see here (https://www.wired.com/review/nuraphone-wireless-headphones-review/). For more general information, see here (https://www.nuraphone.com/products/nuraphone) 🎵

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