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Friday rant: The future of Canon RF and 3rd party lenses

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RDKirk Forum Pro • Posts: 16,545
Re: Friday rant: The future of Canon RF and 3rd party lenses

Robert Krawitz wrote:

RDKirk wrote:

What we can be sure of is that Canon intends to protect their IPs...or they wouldn't have filed the copyrights and patents in the first place. So, we can be pretty sure that whatever negotiations they're doing, one goal is certainly to keep those fences in place.

It's also to prevent someone else from filing for patents on the same thing and thereby preventing Canon from utilizing it, even if they invented it first (most of the world is first-to-file, not first-to-invent).

We know that's not Canon's only reason for filing their patents because they've already moved to protect their patents...that's what this hubbub is all about.

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