Taylor Guitars - V-class Bracing

[bostosh]

I want to share this tech with the world,
Advertizing is for the marketing guys.
Aluminum soundboard is the only mod.
Come here and play it, i can't play, i just make stuff.
The picture did identify myself
I'm in this forum from a link, and won't bother anyone

[feet]

my favorite claim is that it makes you sing better because the guitar is more in tune, somehow, and it extends that courtesy to your voice.

i'm going to assume that this really doesn't make all that much of a difference and continue my policy of not caring. best of luck to all involved- hope the tone is life-altering.

[oldane]

my favorite claim is that it makes you sing better because the guitar is more in tune, somehow, and it extends that courtesy to your voice.

Given the state of my voice, I have made a habit of singing a half step above pitch. I need that headroom.

[Jabberwocky]

And then there is Falcate Bracing ...

Who evaluates these patent applications at the USPTO? Isn't the V-Bracing a dumbed down version of Dr. Trevor Gore's Falcate?

[iim7V7IM7]

No...read the independent claim....

The invention claimed is:


1. A guitar top comprising: a sound hole; a neck end configured to attach to a guitar neck having a longitudinal axis; a heel end; and a transverse axis normal to the longitudinal axis; wherein a bottom surface of the guitar top includes a pair of longitudinal braces attached to the Surface, the pair of longitudinal braces extending primarily along the longitudinal axis from the heel end toward the neck end and terminating at a point beyond the sound hole toward the neck end, wherein each of the pair of longitudinal braces is positioned on an opposing side of the Sound hole Such that a distance between the longi tudinal braces exceeds the diameter of the sound hole, and wherein the longitudinal braces are oriented Such that the distance between the pair of longitudinal braces is greater toward the neck end than the heel end; and one or more fan braces extending primarily along the transverse axis, wherein at least one of the one or more fan braces terminates at one of the pair of longitudinal braces.

That said, the bracing scheme publicly disclosed on a Dutch guitar forum back in 2012 (right) is exactly what is described in claim 1. Since it predates the filing in the four markets Taylor filed in (US, EU, Canada and China) it invalidates the patent based on novelty.


(a)Novelty; Prior Art.—A person shall be entitled to a patent unless—(1)the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention; or

(2)the claimed invention was described in a patent issued under section 151, or in an application for patent published or deemed published under section 122(b), in which the patent or application, as the case may be, names another inventor and was effectively filed before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.


(b)Exceptions.—(1)Disclosures made 1 year or less before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.—A disclosure made 1 year or less before the effective filing date of a claimed invention shall not be prior art to the claimed inventionunder subsection (a)(1) if—(A)the disclosure was made by the inventor or joint inventor or by another who obtained the subject matter disclosed directly or indirectly from the inventor or a joint inventor; or

(B)the subject matter disclosed had, before such disclosure, been publicly disclosed by the inventor or a joint inventor or another who obtained the subject matter disclosed directly or indirectly from the inventor or a joint inventor.


(2)Disclosures appearing in applications and patents.—A disclosure shall not be prior art to a claimed invention under subsection (a)(2) if—(A)the subject matter disclosed was obtained directly or indirectly from the inventor or a joint inventor;

(B)the subject matter disclosed had, before such subject matter was effectively filed under subsection (a)(2), been publicly disclosed by the inventor or a joint inventor or another who obtained the subject matter disclosed directly or indirectly from the inventor or a joint inventor; or

(C)the subject matter disclosed and the claimed invention, not later than the effective filing date of the claimed invention, were owned by the same person or subject to an obligation of assignment to the same person.