DRY 1982 PICKUPS

[Anonymous]

But surely you can buy the name and stop other people from using it?

 

[AlanN]

That'd be trademark rather than a patent...

You couldn't patent the originals anyway: you patent a manufacturing process, and even then you can only do it if the process is unique. Applying for a patent on something that's been in manufacture since 1982 would be denied. Patents only last for 20 years anyway, and even then there are different patent laws in different territories in the world which you have to cover. Sounds like a load of bollocks to me!

 

[JohnA]

That'd be trademark rather than a patent...

You couldn't patent the originals anyway: you patent a manufacturing process, and even then you can only do it if the process is unique. Applying for a patent on something that's been in manufacture since 1982 would be denied. Patents only last for 20 years anyway, and even then there are different patent laws in different territories in the world which you have to cover. Sounds like a load of bollocks to me!

Exactly, you could buy the name DRY-Z but that wouldn't stop someone making DRY-Z's and calling them something else.