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Hammerfjord wrote:The all thing comes down to patented inventions and Panerai was playing on the crown-clasp patent for exemple.
Well, patents are public or free of rights after 20-30 years I think: If I don't mistake but it may depend of the country wher it was deposed...
So after this time, most likely, you can just seat and look the others copying your invention.
Hammerfjord brings up a very important point regarding Panerai and its patents. I would only add that the device protecting the crown on the Luminors is also a registered trademark of Officine Panerai. So while the patent might expire I don't think a registered trademark does.
And here we come to the juridic trick them came up to, when the patent was expired( Because it was deposed the oct 4th 1960 in the US)
That's how they won agaisn't RXW in Japan: With the registered trade-mark rights.
This and also a bunch of money they could use in a lawsuit...
Thanks for the note Aujang;)