Patents on microchips, was Re: anyone have details of "include" patent?

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From: Per Hammarlund
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 1990 08:49

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In article <9143@scolex.sco.COM> seanf@sco.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

   From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
   Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
   Date: 8 Dec 90 22:27:42 GMT
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   Nope.  The patent was granted *recently*.  It doesn't matter when it was
   applied for, all that matters was when it was granted.  Witness the guy who
   recently got a patent for microchips (sorry, I forget the exact subject of
   the patent).  He applied for it over 20 years ago.  Meanwhile, an entire
   industry (one of the most important in the country, from my point of view)
   has grown around this idea.  And this person now has a monopoly for the next
   17 years.  He could, if he wanted to, shut down the entire semiconductor
   industry in the US.

Can anyone give refs to articles in papers and magazines on this? If
this was discussed in any news group, does anyone have those articles?

Thanks,
per

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