Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Re: intro
- To: Sean Vincent <sv0o@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Re: intro
- From: KC5TJA <kc5tja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:30:20 -0800 (PST)
- cc: MISC
- In-Reply-To: <19971117055845.23676.qmail@hotmail.com>
> >> be released shortly; patents only last 17 years, then the idea is
> placed
> >> in the public domain... :)
>
> yep. unless it was filed after june 1995. in that case, it would have
> a term of 20 years starting with the date of filing. Patents are
> useless, however, if the owner stops paying the maintenence fees.
I believe the patent was filed before 1994; in fact, long before 1994. It
was described in an IEEE Spectrum(??) magazine, in a biography of the REAL
inventor of the CPU (Ted Hoff I believe his name was), who worked at Intel
at the time. "It was such an obvious design," I remember the quote, "I
didn't think of patenting it." Whoops.
But then again, perhaps it is a GOOD thing that Intel doesn't have the
patent.. :)
> I agree. I Let's talk more about creating circuits with laser printers.
And homebrewing your own stack-based CPUs... :) But I guess there's a
dedicated mailing list for that, so perhaps I should join that list too?
:)
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