Portable stereo's creator got his due, eventually

Iria · Dec 16, 2005, 09:33 PM

SÃO PAULO - In the late 1960s, Andreas Pavel and his friends gathered regularly at his house here to listen to records, from Bach to Janis Joplin, and talk politics and philosophy. In their flights of fancy, they wondered why it should not be possible to take their music with them wherever they went.

Inspired by those discussions, Pavel invented the device known today as the Walkman. But it took more than 25 years of battling Sony and others in courts and patent offices around the world before he finally won the right to say it: Andreas Pavel invented the portable personal stereo player.

"I filed my first patent a complete innocent, thinking it would be a simple matter, 12 months or so, to establish my ownership and begin production," he said at the house where he first conceived of the device.

"I never imagined that it would end up consuming so much time and taking me away from my real interests in life."
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Dec 16, 2005, 09:33 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 87	Portable stereo's creator got his due, eventually SÃO PAULO - In the late 1960s, Andreas Pavel and his friends gathered regularly at his house here to listen to records, from Bach to Janis Joplin, and talk politics and philosophy. In their flights of fancy, they wondered why it should not be possible to take their music with them wherever they went. Inspired by those discussions, Pavel invented the device known today as the Walkman. But it took more than 25 years of battling Sony and others in courts and patent offices around the world before he finally won the right to say it: Andreas Pavel invented the portable personal stereo player. "I filed my first patent a complete innocent, thinking it would be a simple matter, 12 months or so, to establish my ownership and begin production," he said at the house where he first conceived of the device. "I never imagined that it would end up consuming so much time and taking me away from my real interests in life." ____________ Read More / Source: International Herald Tribune