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Originally posted by Strongbow
Back to the corrogated iron boards Im pretty sure that was done by Windrush in Perth. Worked for them about 22 years ago and saw some corro creations in storage and was told that these were done to challenge the patent. Anyone hav more info about this.
check this out...about half way down page..the corrugated canoes I mentioned above
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsurfing"For their part, Australian courts, in a 1983 patent case reported in "Intellectual Property Reports" 3 IPR 449, attributed the first legally accepted use to an Australian boy, Richard Eastaugh. Between the ages of ten and thirteen, from 1946 to 1949, aided by his younger brothers, he built around 20 galavanised iron canoes and hill trolleys which he equipped with sails with spilt bamboo booms. He sailed these near his home on the Swan River in Perth. There is no evidence that any of the later "inventors" ever sighted the Eastaugh craft of a decade earlier on the other side of the world.
It is acknowledged that the Eastaugh, Chilvers, and Darby inventions all pre-dated the Drake and Schweitzer invention. However, the popularization of windsurfing would not have taken place without the efforts of Schweitzer. The prior inventions simply lay forgotten until they re-emerged in legal defenses against litigation by Schweitzer."
this is an acknowledged quote from wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsurfing
