[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 1/4/2006 10:35:31 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Unfortunately, upon a quick search in the database of US patents and
and patent applications, I was not able to find one from Pentax,
but I didn't have time for a thorough search. Besides, Pentax
might be licensing the technology from somebody else.
(I was able to find one of the Canon's IS patent:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u
=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,933,968.WKU.&OS=PN/6,933,968&RS=PN/6,
933,968
http://tinyurl.com/9acfl )
Igor
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Pentax isn't a US company.
I don't know this -- does a foreign company need to take out patents in the
US for their proprietary stuff?
Yes, if they want protection in the US for their proprietary products.
Our company routinely files patents in the European Union, Japan, as
well as the US of course.
Marnie aka Doe
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