Are these kilts?

[Caradoc]

Why can he patent a pleating system that's been used before him? He's the first one to apply for a patent on it... that's how.

It seems to me that he'd have a rough time enforcing it in the event of a lawsuit - prior art and all.

[switchblade5984]

if it is a us patent

does that mean some on in say..... canada make them?

[switchblade5984]

It seems to me that he'd have a rough time enforcing it in the event of a lawsuit - prior art and all.

from what i have seen they are slightly different

he has knife pleats that go to the back with A box pleat in the back

[Kilted KT]

I figure anyone trying to sue UK on the basis of this patent is a frivolous bored lawyer. If someone can't come up with their own way to fold cloth, then they need to get out of the kilt industry altogether!

[Schultz]

The UK patent also begins with listing a "front center pleat".

It's not just the "Kinguisse" style pleat in the back that's patented, but the entire garment itself. A traditional kilt made (and sold) in the US with the Kinguisse style pleat would not violate UK's patent, at least not according to one of the patent attorneys here at my firm.

[Caradoc]

from what i have seen they are slightly different

he has knife pleats that go to the back with A box pleat in the back

This is also known as a "Kingussie" or "reverse Kingussie" pleat, depending on the direction of the knife pleats. If the pleats "point" to the back, it's a reverse Kingussie. If the pleats "point" from the center box pleat out to the hips, it's a Kingussie pleat.

I've also seen it listed as a "Kinguisse" pleat.

Kingussie Reproduction Website

[bubba]

I agee with Schultz, there's no way UK could enforce that patent against someone making and selling Kingusse style kilts, only against someone making a direct copy of a UK

[RockyR]

Could they enforce it? Maybe... Testing that theory is where patent law only benifits the lawyers involved.

[mrpharr]

Yes, you wrap them round your waste in a kind of circle . . .

the kilt is a circumferential garment that wraps around your "waist."

[mrpharr]

Though I'd like to own one, I haven't a single Utilikilt. I got my start in kitl wearing by dressing up for Halloween. Then I carried it on when I realized the chicks dig men in kilts.

During my 2000 trip to London, I had one English lady at the National Art Gallery there in London inform me that we Yanks speak "American" and not "English." *shrugs* "American" is simply a dialect of "English," so I would say that a UK is simply a dialect of kilt. [/QUOTE]




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