🚀 go-pugleaf

"In an extraordinary move, Philips' US subsidiary is licensing the 
microcomputer patent of independent researcher Gilbert Hyatt [...] and
pursuing payments on his behalf.

"Last July, Hyatt was granted a patent for the single-chip microcomputer,
having submitted the original patent in 1970.  His success met with derision
and dismay among chip manufacturers.  It was widely expected among industry
watchers that vendors would attempt to buy him off, rather than acknowledge
a precedent which is so central to their own businesses.

"Philips will not only gain access to the technologies covered by the patent
-- which includes processor and LCD devices -- but will also pursue Hyatt's
licenses and royalties worldwide.  It will take a percentage of any license
fee collected."

    -- PC User, 20 November -- 3 December.


mathew

-- 
Another would-be Mac owner put off by Apple's monopolistic practices.