{"id":3991,"date":"2011-11-10T09:21:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T14:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3991"},"modified":"2016-12-28T10:11:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T15:11:32","slug":"luma-loop-discontinued-due-to-bad-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/10\/luma-loop-discontinued-due-to-bad-patents\/","title":{"rendered":"Luma Loop Discontinued Due to Bad Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/luma-labs.com\/blogs\/news\/4540122-an-open-letter-to-our-customers-past-and-future\">James Duncan Davidson and Greg Koenig<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/luma-labs.com\/blogs\/news\/4540122-an-open-letter-to-our-customers-past-and-future\"><p>In short, the idea of a sliding camera sling isn&rsquo;t an amazing new invention. It&rsquo;s just a really good idea that&rsquo;s been around for a while and has been iteratively developed. Neither we nor our lawyers believed that the USPTO would grant a patent for the claims related to this concept. It was a surprise, then, when our competitor was granted a patent covering the concept on November 1st, 2011. To say that we&rsquo;re disappointed that the USPTO couldn&rsquo;t find the prior art around the idea is an understatement.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Duncan Davidson and Greg Koenig: In short, the idea of a sliding camera sling isn&rsquo;t an amazing new invention. It&rsquo;s just a really good idea that&rsquo;s been around for a while and has been iteratively developed. Neither we nor our lawyers believed that the USPTO would grant a patent for the claims related to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[40,153,1451],"class_list":["post-3991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-patents","tag-photography","tag-sunset"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3992,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions\/3992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}