Category: Patents Rock

Rockin’ (Design) Patent: US Design Patent No. D762,765 Filed: 28 October 2014 In the name of: Nicholas Frirsz Title: Musical Instrument Including A Reel-like Structure What’s claimed: “The ornamental design for a musical instrument including a reel-like structure, as shown and described.” Why this (design) patent rocks: Unlike utility patents, design patents (also called “registered designs”) protect the way all or part of a product looks rather than how it works. This is why the claim here refers to the “ornamental design” for the musical instrument including a reel-like structure “as shown”. This design patent seems to relate to the “Filmocaster” electric guitar by Frirsz […]

Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 9,398,367 Filed: 25 July 2014 In the name of: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Assignee) Title: Suspending Noise Cancellation Using Keyword Spotting What’s claimed: “A method, comprising: receiving a first external audio signal from a microphone of a noise-cancelling device; determining that the first external audio signal does not comprise a keyword corresponding to suspension of noise cancellation; generating a noise-cancellation signal for cancelling the first external audio signal; causing a speaker of the noise-cancelling device to generate audio corresponding to the noise-cancellation signal; receiving a second external audio signal from the microphone of the noise-cancelling device; determining that the second external audio signal comprises the […]

Rockin’ (Design) Patent: US Design Patent No. D761,349 Filed: 12 July 2016 In the name of: Michael Alan Fisher Title: Guitar Pedal What’s claimed: “The ornamental design for a guitar pedal, as shown and described.” Why this (design) patent rocks: Unlike utility patents, design patents (also called “registered designs”) protect the way all or part of a product looks rather than how it works. This is why the claim here refers to the “ornamental design” for the guitar pedal “as shown”. This design seems to relate to the Enigma X16 pedal by Mass Flux Instruments (see their Facebook page here) If you’re a patent-savvy music tech […]

Rockin’ (Design) Patent: US Design Patent No. D752,021 Filed: 25 April 2014 In the name of: Devialet Title: Loudspeaker What’s claimed: “The ornamental design for a loudspeaker, as shown and described.” Why this (design) patent rocks: Unlike utility patents, design patents (also called “registered designs”) protect the way all or part of a product looks rather than how it works. This is why the claim here refers to the “ornamental design” for the loudspeaker “as shown”. This design patent seems to relate to Devialet’s Phantom speaker, which Devialet claim on their website is “the best wireless speaker in the world” (see here) If you’re a patent-savvy […]

Figure 1 of this design patent “is a perspective view of the front, top and right side of an electronic keyboard” Rockin’ (Design) Patent: US Design Patent No. D761,348 Filed: 14 April 2015 In the name of: Yamaha Corporation Title: Electronic Keyboard What’s claimed: “The ornamental design for an electronic keyboard, as shown and described.” Why this (design) patent rocks: Unlike utility patents, design patents (also called “registered designs”) protect the way all or part of a product looks rather than how it works. This is why the claim here refers to the “ornamental design” for an electronic keyboard “as shown”. If you’re a patent-savvy music […]

Rockin’ Registered Design: EU Registered Design No. 003124577-0001 Filed: 15 March 2016 In the name of: Mymanu Indication of Product: Earphones Why this registered design rocks: This registered design relates to the visual appearance of an earphone (rather than how it works). Various different views of the earphone are shown at the link above. This registered design appears to relate to Mymanu’s CLIK earphones which, according to their Kickstarter page here, are “[t]he world’s first proven truly wireless earbuds that translates your voice in real-time with advanced audio quality”. If you’re a patent-savvy music tech business looking for patent help, get in touch with Russell IP here! The information above is […]

Rockin’ (Design) Patent: US Design Patent No. D769,364 Filed: 5 October 2015 In the name of: Chemistry Design Werks LLC Title: Adjustable Guitar Pedalboard What’s claimed: “The ornamental design for an adjustable guitar pedalboard, as shown and described.” Why this (design) patent rocks: Unlike utility patents, design patents (also called “registered designs”) protect the way all or part of a product looks rather than how it works. This is why the claim here refers to the “ornamental design” for an adjustable guitar pedalboard “as shown”. It appears that this design relates to one of the Holeyboard pedalboards from Chemistry Design Werks LLC – see here. […]

Rockin’ Registered Design: EU Registered Design No. 003419472-0001 Filed: 14 October 2016 In the name of: Lola Gielen Indication of Product: Electronic Musical Instruments Why this registered design rocks: This registered design relates to the visual appearance of an electronic musical instrument (rather than how it works). This registered design appears to relate to the base part of Lola Gielen’s Neo musical instrument and is part of a multiple design application relating to various different components of Neo (see here, here, here, here, and here). According to the Lola Gielen website: “It takes years of hard work to master an instrument. I love making music, but nobody […]

Figure 2 of this patent “shows an embodiment of the presentation invention as a combination of a tuner integrated with a capo…” Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 7,968,778 Filed: 6 April 2010 In the name of: D’Addario & Company, Inc. Title: Tuner With Capo What’s claimed: “A combination capo and tuner, comprising: a capo connectable to the neck or headstock of a stringed instrument with sufficient contact to mechanically transmit a spectrum of mechanical vibrations commensurate with the acoustic vibration of a string; and a tuner mechanically integrated with the capo and including a sensor such that mechanical vibrations transmitted through the capo are received by the sensor, and a […]

Rockin’ Patent Application: International Patent Application No. PCT/IB2016/050222 Filing Date: 18 January 2016 In the name of: Zylia Spoka Z Ograziczona Odpowiedzialnoscia Title: Method of Encoding, Method of Decoding, Encoder and Decoder of an Audio Signal What’s claimed: “An audio signal encoding method comprising the steps of: collecting the audio signal samples, determining sinusoidal components in subsequent frames, estimation of amplitudes and frequencies of the components for each frame, merging thus obtained pairs into sinusoidal trajectories, splitting particular trajectories into segments, transforming particular trajectories to the frequency domain by means of a digital transform performed on segments longer than the frame duration, quantization and selection […]