23. February 2019 - Steelpan History: “Controversial Pan Patent Lapses”

Last Updated on 12. October 2021

Steelpan History: “Controversial Pan Patent Lapses”, Caribbean Review, 23.2.2019

“Filed on June 23rd  1999 and approved on April 10th 2001, the patent became the object of national outrage and anger when the news finally broke here in 2002.”

Sources:

https://www.caribbeanreview.org/2019/02/controversial-pan-patent-lapses/

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6212772B1/en