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Cool design.
I honestly think you would have had troubles getting a utility patent. A utility patent needs to show a 'new and profound' thing or design that fixes a problem, and even as you said in your thread title; "Just Another Wiring System" indicating that it is very similar to other designs, and not fixing any issues those other designs present.
You would most likely had to get a design patent, but I'm not sure how copy-resistant those are.
In any case, cool design!
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Ahh, that was a typo. I was going to call it "Just A Wiring System" just to be able to use JAWS as a name (At least I got the name right on github, lol).
But I agree, there is nothing "new and profound" about it and funny enough I have seen some designs pop up recently. Maybe multiple people got annoyed with cables around the same time. Haa. Hopefully by open sourcing it people can modify it to fit other rails like CMR, keymod, etc.
I need to set up a kickstarter to injection mold some in black and tan.
That's all I want out of this.
I know TNVC and another company were trying to solve this as well, I still think this design is cooler.
Also, from what I have heard design patents are not as copy-resistant. Basically someone could have copied the thing entirely, changes the texture on top, and that's it. No longer a copy.