DennisLinkletter Posted June 21, 2007 Report Posted June 21, 2007 Great news, Komodo Kamado now has Patent Pending Status for all of it's main and distinctive features. The searching process seemed to take 4ever. But we got 'em all..
jdbower Posted June 21, 2007 Report Posted June 21, 2007 Congrats! I know first hand that patent searches are often a painful process.
Sanny Posted June 21, 2007 Report Posted June 21, 2007 Yippeeeee!!! All along we've known you created a unique and wonderful product, and now you have PROOF!! YAY!! So proud of you, Dennis. I want some. Sigh.
Porkchop Posted June 21, 2007 Report Posted June 21, 2007 All along we've known you created a unique and wonderful product' date=' and now you have PROOF!! [/quote'] as they say, that is the bottom line. naysayers can line up all they want, call names, grumble, whatever. when you can show somebody a patent, you have been LEGALLY acknowledged as an innovator! knew it was only a matter of time. once the pat pend stuff goes thru dennis, how many patents will you hold?
DavidS Posted June 22, 2007 Report Posted June 22, 2007 Great news. Just what the best cooker in world should have.
PrimoSand Posted June 27, 2007 Report Posted June 27, 2007 I wonder why Richard didn't get a patent ??? Must be a fly in the ointment
jdbower Posted June 27, 2007 Report Posted June 27, 2007 I wonder why Richard didn't get a patent ??? I believe the patents are for all of the unique parts of Dennis' cookers. A traditional round kamado has been around for thousands of years so the concept of a "ceramic cooker" is too broad to be patentable, but Dennis' teardrop shape and off-center damper are innovative and worthy of patent. Interesting side note, the primary purpose of a patent is not to protect the patent holder from unauthorized use but to spur innovation by publishing the patentable inventions and processes such that when the patent expires others can use and improve on the designs. The protection a patent offers is mostly there to encourage people to file patents. In 20 years or so everyone will have a teardrop cooker but by then Dennis will probably have a 9th dimensional model that can cook 100lbs of ribs in something that fits in a desk drawer
tcoliver Posted June 28, 2007 Report Posted June 28, 2007 Richard did have patents on his original design but they ran out.
Turtle Posted June 29, 2007 Report Posted June 29, 2007 Richard did have patents on his original design but they ran out. Its OK... not too many manufacturers wanted to steal the snowing tiles inovation anyway. Oops. I'll behave.
DennisLinkletter Posted June 29, 2007 Author Report Posted June 29, 2007 So I got 4, going for 7. These are the designs that were issued Patent Pending Status OTB's unique body shape with rear chimney with straps and hinge built into the body. Two layer construction. Komodo sandwich construction of a dense refractory inner layer with a lightweight outer layer of insulation. Two Piece Firebox The user adjustable spring powered rear hinge. I have three other features/designs that are still being searched. We needed to revise the description a bit. So I got 4, going for 7.
Firemonkey Posted June 29, 2007 Report Posted June 29, 2007 All are damn fine innovations, too! Did you have any luck filing patents on the non cracking body, and tiles that dont fall off features?
trish Posted August 8, 2007 Report Posted August 8, 2007 Re: So I got 4, going for 7. These are the designs that were issued Patent Pending Status OTB's unique body shape with rear chimney with straps and hinge built into the body. Two layer construction.Komodo sandwich construction of a dense refractory inner layer with a lightweight outer layer of insulation. Two Piece Firebox The user adjustable spring powered rear hinge. I have three other features/designs that are still being searched. We needed to revise the description a bit. So I got 4, going for 7. Can Richard and Topo still legally duplicate this design....or are the patent laws not applicable there. I realize if a patent has expired they can copy whatever they like, but these were just obtained. I guess people can get the knockoff from the guy with terrible customer service!
Sanny Posted August 8, 2007 Report Posted August 8, 2007 Patent is only as good as the willingness to enforce it, I suppose...
Firemonkey Posted August 8, 2007 Report Posted August 8, 2007 Something tells me that if RJ is as close as he seems, since he is using Topo (who likely did not relocate to Singapore) Dennis will have no shortage of zeal to enforce it
TheNakedWhiz Posted February 29, 2012 Report Posted February 29, 2012 Re: Komodo Kamado get's Patent Pending Status.. For those interested, Richard Johnson's patent was only a design patent that protected the appearance of his cooker. Sort of like patenting the shape of a coke bottle. You haven't patented the concept of a bottle, just one particular shape of a bottle. Farhad Sazegar held the original utility patent on the cooker itself. More details here: http://www.nakedwhiz.com/ceramicinvent.htm
Syzygies Posted March 4, 2012 Report Posted March 4, 2012 Re: So I got 4, going for 7. I guess people can get the knockoff from the guy with terrible customer service! If that's what they want they have to go to him. I believe that guy has a "business model patent".
CeramicChef Posted November 13, 2014 Report Posted November 13, 2014 Dennis, I'm no intellectual property attorney, but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night. Please tell me your patent attorneys have examined the air control manifold on the KK BB 32 for possible patents. I'm telling you that thing is is most innovative air control feature I've seen on a kamado. It's shear genius and you should be able to protect that thing, or so it would seem in my poor pumpkin head. 1
