Portable Stereo Creator Gets His Due 149
eadint wrote to mention an International Tribune article covering Sony's settlement with the inventor of the portable stereo. From the article: "Pavel invented the device known today as the Walkman. But it took more than 25 years of battling the Sony Corporation and others in courts and patent offices around the world before he finally won the right to say it: Andreas Pavel invented the portable personal stereo player."
Slight correction (Score:1, Informative)
You wouldn't say Nintendo invented the Playstation, would you?
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And considering that Sony was manufacturing and doing R&D for Nintendo's consoles prior to the N64 and that the play station development was initiated by Nintendo, I wouldn't say that Nintendo invented the Play Station but Nintendo definetly had a hand in it's conception.
wiki [wikipedia.org]
It was already available (Score:5, Informative)
So what was his invention? What??
Similar in style to the tape recorder on this page:
http://www.superscopetechnologies.com/company/his
"In 1975, Superscope's product line included: eight portable tape recorders, six portable-cassette radio products, seven Hi Fi receivers, two tuners, three amplifiers, five stereo tape decks, six speaker models, five compact music systems, eight microphones "
The history of Grundig (Score:5, Informative)
1965 The Cassette Recorder C 100 is the first cassette tape recorder made by Grundig. Recording takes place with the DC International System, on cassettes with the dimensions 120 x 77 x 12 mm.
1967 The CC Compact Cassette is introduced and can be listened to with the Cassette Tape Recorder C 200.
1974: The portable Radio Recorder C 6000 Automatic is a best-seller. Over 710,000 units are sold.
He filed for his patent in 1977.
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Re:Ideas are almost entirely worthless... (Score:3, Informative)
It is not necessary to prove that an idea actually works before getting a patent on it.
Software and business patents are *entirely* idea based.
This is his USA 93 patent claiming 78 prioity date (Score:3, Informative)
Check out the pictures of his invention.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?u=/neta
http://patimg1.uspto.gov/.piw?docid=US005201003&P
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