Patents and Professionalism

[Ric Brekne]

Bernhard.

I must admit I am a bit confused by all this. First off you come in both 
this time around and last year accusing me of stealing tuning ideas from 
you and misrepresenting them as my own. Last year you jumped all over 
Jason for making reference to the "Brekne P 12ths" tuning.  Now all of a 
sudden you say your OnlyPure is something completely different, so 
completely different that it is patentable. I suppose your objections to 
the "Brekne P 12ths"  name has dissapeared as well since it serves to 
differentiate between your OnlyPure and my P 12ths.  If your standpoint 
is now that the two approaches are so different then I fail to see the 
reasoning for all your aggressive defense of claimed territory as it were.

As to the comments below.  I dont want to burst any bubbles for you mind 
you... but folks have been tuning in such a way as to aurally << 
eliminate >> (in the sense you have previously described) beats between 
these relevant intervals for years now.  No one has formalized the 
approach to be sure, nor besides yourself provided any mathematical 
foundation for why it works so well.  But the general idea has been 
aired around tuners for decades.  Virgil Smiths  "beatless" approach and 
the many descriptions about that and similar stuff have been around for 
years.  In fact, that influence on me some 6 years ago, along with 
Andre's insistence that I should tune the treble using the double octave 
tenth / major sixth test lead directly to me developing the Brekne P 
12th for Tunelab.  That was a natural consequence of my basic direct 
referencing approach to using ETD's to begin with.  All this coupled 
(and much more) with the fact that the idea of using P12ths alone and in 
itself is clearly non patentable,  I dont really see you have much of a 
case.

But as I said... by all means use your time, effort, and money as you 
will.  IMHO however,  it looks like a guaranteed way of throwing cash 
out the window.

with respect
Richard Brekne


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Bernhard wrote:

Ric,

I do not patent the P12 tuning with this patent filing.
I do patent a new method that reach a state of the P12  tuning that cannot 
be reached by any other previous method.(i.e. the elimination of the beats 
of octaves and fifths, when played together in chords,due to the symmetry of 
beats that occurs only in the P12 tuning). This elimination possibility was 
not recognized until now, and is use it explicitely in the new method to 
build the temperament completely by 3-note chords, of octave and inner lower 
fifth and octave and inner upper fifth, played at the same time. And this is 
a new method. And therefore patentable.

You can repeat as often as you want that the P12 tuning concept is not new. 
This is not the point.

best regards,

Bernhard