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Thanks for your interest! If you PM Isak, we can see what we can work out. The lead time on custom orders is getting pretty high though.
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I'm not sure what all the excitement is about then. If the tiles are patented and the objects on top of them are patented, then its still kind of a gray road isn't it. Well good luck with your project, the columns are nice, people have been doing them on here for years with wedding cake columns as have I. Welcome to the boards.
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So you could not make a single, two hex, three hex, or a seven hex but could make a 4 hex piece. Is that right?
A 7-hex with the middle hex missing would be very cool. A cloud can change its semblance, yet retain its will With the intimacy of destruction, One knows what it is to be alive The empty sky holds no reflection, for sorrow - Eslo Rudkey |
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Going back to the USPTO, design patents D536390, D536391, and D536392 are the relevant patents. D536390 covers the 1-, 2-, 3-, and 7-hex tiles, D536392 covers the 24-hex tile, and D536391 covers all five as a set. Since design patents issued before 5/13/2015 have a term of 14 years, D536390 will expire on August 25 of next year; the other two won't expire until 2020. Quote:
The illustrations in design patent D536390 show both the 'official' cracked-surface and blank tile faces, so reproductions of those tiles, even with different faces, could readily be determined to be "substantially similar" for purposes of infringement. A three-hex tile with the hexes in a straight line, as well as larger tiles excluding the seven-hex 'round' tile, I believe, would fall outside the limits of the patent (but, then, IANAL). Last edited by srmalloy; March 10th, 2017 at 04:39 PM. |
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Ill enjoy what you guys post but I will not indulge in it myself.
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I believe, though, that design patents issued since 1995 have a fourteen-year term, which means that the patent on all the tiles but the 24-hex tile should be coming up to expire next year, based on a 2004 filing date. Assuming that the design patent was filed at the same time the utility patent was. |
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Interesting stuff...all these years we've believed that there were utility patents preventing the use of the interlock feature, but nobody ever realized that the applications were rejected. Oh, what could have been!!
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Look at it this way, what will be, HeroScape is about to have more life than it has had for a while.
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Hello. I am the guy that won the 4 pillars at the Utah Monthly. I also have some custom Pillars from another person on ebay that I purchased about a year ago for around $60. Their design is different, and didn't have a hex on the top for a figure to stand on. I'll post pictures if you are interested.
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