@Beja : hello, I don't really have anything to add to the above debate, mainly its a very big legal area of practice in many areas of copyright and ideation. The whole COULD revolve around proving that the idea (one's idea) and its public statement predated another same statement. The principle is often seen in the music and academic research zones - though it would apply most likely in other areas of ideation and invention.
I have a long ago memory that goes as follows :
A Swedish [edit
turns out its Danish sorry Ms Toksvig] think-tank (well known although I've forgotten its name now - at least I think it was there {**}) wanted to patent a technique for raising sunken vessels from seabed / somewhere underwater. The idea that they came up with seemed brilliant and really simple. They wanted to pump a bizillion ping-pong balls or something into the wreck, create bouyancy, and, ergo, the wreck would float to the surface. When applying for the patent, the problem they came up against was that the patent office in its due diligence found a Donald Duck cartoon strip in which the very idea had been used and "demonstrated" by whoever Donald Duck was authored by. On the basis that the IDEA had already been "published" the patent was refused. Although salvage work is today carried out often using airbags and balloon thingys.
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{**} I just remembered and looked this up on giggle :
Karl Kroyer which exposes the myth and legend of the story, but it "applies" none-the-less
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Intellectual Property is more often than not about precedence ... as others have suggested here ... a long and not easy journey.
Not being more than a couch-top lawyer, I'm not sure whether one can use the idea to produce things anyway (within the limits of commercial and technical boundaries), but it would be subject to the principle of acknowledgement of origin of the idea. Yeah, I know, find a commercial entity that does That. Anyway. Just a snippet of what was an intriguing information bite at the time a thousand years ago. In other areas use of the ideas / music bars / maths and science etc this is a clear no-no without very careful accreditation and referencing recognising the originator/s. {Ok that is a pedantic point, but in the world I lived in for many years, always worth reminding one's self about).
So, one of the things I wanted to ask about, and avoid starting a new thread
🏳 is : based on the post your quote in #1 which looks like its a solution to a project I am working on .... [
original question]
The post:
Hello all, Not sure if I posted this before.. Bluetooth range is about 20 meters.. But at some situations you may want to extend that range to longer distance.. the idea is to send the data to an external Bluetooth module (HC-6) next to the phone. that BT module is further connected to wireless...
www.b4x.com
can you please point to the posting that has the mentioned information
Sure I will.. Compiling more information including the b4a app.
By the end of the day will be updated.