Reply to "Patent on scale mph??"

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I have found this to be an infomative and fascinating discussion (much of which is significantly beyond my technical understanding)!

Ted,

When you said this....

"The manufacturers of other command systems could certainly adopt a more accurate method of speed control along with a standard speed curve. Lionel has done that with legacy without any legal issues."

are you referring to what Lionel calls "Official RR Speed"? Secondly, were there no legal issues with this feature because while it does refer to mph, it does not report the engine's speed in real time to the operator as it accelerates/decelerates via a display on the remote? OR, is it that MTH has not patented what data is collected (or what unit of measure it is expressed in) but rather how the data is collected in order to determine the smph. Is that an oversimplifciation?

again thank you for the education

7/23/1211:08 AM

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