Re: Patents, Royalties and other Scams...???


"Iain M Churches" <tael@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Keith G" <keith_g@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote



>> Happens all the time - the guy trying to sell Workmates struggled for 14
>> years to get someone to buy the idea. Finally got Black and Decker to buy
>> it on about the third attempt. His end of the deal was a quid for every
>> one sold - they've sold over 40 million of them!!
>
> Plus there must be millions of look alikes, for which the poor
> man doesn't get a penny:-((
>
> Much less OT for this group is the fact that Ray Dolby tried to
> sell the idea for his "S/N stretcher" as it was then called to
> both Decca and EMI. He needed serious funding to get it
> off the ground. Neither company thought it was a viable
> idea. EMI were working on their own "compander" which
> never got further than prototype testing.



Workmates OT for this group? WTF do you think speakers are made on?




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