{"id":26591,"date":"2011-11-21T08:11:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T16:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26591"},"modified":"2011-11-21T08:11:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T16:11:55","slug":"slater-vs-webber-in-a-wave-pool-duel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26591","title":{"rendered":"Slater vs. Webber In A Wave Pool Duel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/27uTryEpznY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kelly Slater<\/strong> may be moving forward with his circular wave pool idea, but the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kswaveco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Slater Wave Company<\/a><\/strong> has hit a flat spell when it comes to protecting its intellectual property thanks to an extremely similar patented registered by <strong>Greg Webber <\/strong>and<strong> <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/webberwavepools.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Webber Wave Poosl<\/a><\/strong>, according to a <strong>Stu Nettle<\/strong> story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swellnet.com.au\/news\/2651-kelly-slater-almost-sunk-in-wave-pool-wrangle\" target=\"_blank\">Swellnet.com.au<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since applying for a patent in 2008 Kelly Slater and his business partner, Adam Fincham, have twice been rejected because their wave pool infringes upon Greg Webber&#8217;s design. In both of their attempts &#8211; first in 2008 then again this year &#8211; the response from examiners at the US Patent Office has been identical: the design submitted by the Kelly Slater Wave Company is &#8220;unpatentable over Webber.&#8221; It is too similar to Greg Webber&#8217;s design for a patent to be granted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click the link for all the shore breaking  details.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swellnet.com.au\/news\/2651-kelly-slater-almost-sunk-in-wave-pool-wrangle\" target=\"_blank\">Swellnet.com.au<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Slater may be moving forward with his circular wave pool idea, but the Kelly Slater Wave Company has hit a flat spell when it comes to protecting its intellectual property thanks to an extremely similar patented registered by Greg Webber and Webber Wave Poosl, according to a Stu Nettle story on Swellnet.com.au. Since applying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26591"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26592,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26591\/revisions\/26592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}