Reply to post: Re: Edwin Armstrong

IP freely? What a wind-up! If only Trevor Baylis had patent protections inventors enjoy today

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

Re: Edwin Armstrong

"A good design patent / Registered design is a special sort of copyright. Again it favours the big company, but even there they need a unique shape (coca-cola bottle), or a mis-spelled word (Lyft) or made up word (Kleenex), or a custom design of logo / font face."

Or just a colour.

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