Modding Patent Pending: Glowing UV Blue IDE cable - Activity LED ! 13 pics ! ->

very gj man, since i only use ide or my cd roms, and sata for hd guess it wouldnt light up anyway kick ass job

 

The LED is on while there's no activity,
I guess it will work, and will be always on.

Thanks

 

Hmm..

Patent doesnt apply if there is previous art or if it has been discussed in an open format before patenting it.

Obviously this is an open forum, and I'm pretty sure it's been done before by other people. Check out Zapwizards chess thread for the patent stuff.

 

Thats looks tyte

 

yeah, i bet i could race you for a patent. seeing as I have 5 working models in red, green, blue, cycling, and UV.

that and you wouldnt make much money off of it. somebody would change the method used for it and sell it as new. That and I don''t think you ahve much of a claim to being the first to do it when Zapwizard here has already written a guide for using pin 39.

 

I currentlu proposing it to a company,

I will update you

 

ohh well done Mr. man
I'll give it 3 eggs

 

very nice may try it myself

 

I still don't see how its right that you can patent something that has been done before by other people and the method you use has been documented by another person.

 

that's pretty nice...

i don't think the patent will go thru tho becuz you simply modified the uv wires.

if you made it from the ground up, you probably could, but if somebody already patented the round wires *which probably not*

you can't patent it as your own.

believe me, i tried to get something patented but the design was too close to the orginal product. so they wouldn't approve

just like CCFL, 4 LED fans, there are many company using the same design and such,

you can't patent something you modified, it'd be like telling people not to put LED's in ur fan becuz u did it first.

 

For everyone who has said that patenting this idea wouldnt be fair, the fact is, that patents, period, arent fair. A patent doesnt say that you're the first to come up with the idea, but your the first to -discover- the idea, and keep it for your own. If he were to patent this idea, anyone could still do it, but its a matter of profiting from it that would cause legal dispute, which I doubt would get anywhere in the first place.

There have been many instances where people have come up with great ideas
and even profited from them, but they never patented it, so somebody else comes along, patents the idea, and reaps the benefits. Patents give the honest guy the chance to hold his own, and the sneaky one to steal it if he doesnt.

 

OK,

I cant patent it for sure -
It costs a lot of money, and it is a lot of time...

anyways, I will write about it a very nice guide

 

very nice good idea looks kool

 

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you have a hope in hells chance of getting a decent patent for this. For several reasons, the fact that you publicly disclosed the invention before seeking a patent, the fact that the idea was modified on the advice of others, the fact that this does not constitute: an invention, mathematical formula or rule, computer program, discovery, data presentation method and does not have an industrial application; the idea is also not a new one, it is also an idea that is an easy leap to make for someone in this field of expertise.

I'm not sure about the patent regulations in your country, but those I have quoted are largely for the UK and International patent offices.

If you do secure a patent, and shell out lots of cash doing so, and someone decides to make one of these with out express recorded permission from you, the chances of you succeeding in a law suit against that company with such a weak patent basis (see above points) would be extremely slim.

Also, from a personal rather than legal point of view, i have to politely disagree with the idea of you patenting such an invention as, the way I see it, and probably many others, is that it is very much against the modding community spirit of experimentation, sharing, individuality and personal rather than financial satisfaction, although I must admit, making some money from what you enjoy can be very personally rewarding.

Despite this, I wish you the best of luck in whatever course of action you choose to pursue.

 

i'm surprised that you carried the idea of patenting it this far, because clearly you werent the first to do it, and that you taking credit for it is just wrong

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition there.
--Mohandas Gandhi

classic example of the second group i guess

modding community, you're number one!

 

Patenting something is not necessarily taking credit, mind you.

 

In all fairness, I could create this product and sell it. If you chalenged (costs alot of coin), and I had the money from corprate backup, I could buy my way out of the law suit for less than you spent challenging). Then if you re-challenged (spending even more money) I could again buy my way out again, for less then you spent. Eventually you would be bankrupt and I could then legally purchase the patent form the government.

 

I would say try getting a company to sell it with you.. rather than a patent.

I think this is a cool mod btw. I probably wouldn't have doen it that way, ie lots of wires running all over, with cable ties to try and tidy up.. lol

good job though


I hope to be able to do that on my current project now.(not in the forums yet) but will be rounding the cables manually... and I guess I will need some kind of clear tubing to go around the cable and all... But not sure If I will do this or not still... it looks so cool

 

Has any one ever seen a cable with el wire in it? If so plz let me know!

 

yup. I don't remember were though. Sorry. It looked mighty sweet. but not done the same way as done by Avner here. Just lit up all the time. I think the el wire would draw too much current (the inverter I mean.)