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Chip Firm Hit By 45-Year-Old Patent

JPMH writes "The Register is reporting that a Taiwanese chip foundry is being sued over two chemistry patents, one over 45 years old. The patents at issue were filed in 1957 and 1964, but are still in force because they were not granted until 1987 and 1992 respectively. The first patent, 4,702,808, details an apparatus and method for initiating chemical reactions by focusing "radiant energy, such as a laser" onto streams of particles. The second patent, 5,131,941 also details an apparatus and method for initiating chemical reactions, but this time radiation is used to provide the energy kick needed to get the compounds to interact."

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  3. GOOD!!! by pair-a-noyd · · Score: -1, Troll

    Let's make something in the USA for once, eh???
    Sue the bastards, shut them down, drop a MOAB on them if need be..

    I'm bloody sick of SHIT made in turd world countries....

    Bring the jobs home and bring the money home.
    FUCK THEM...

  4. Your timothy Bashing for the day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    timothy eats bung.

  5. Re:FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
  6. in SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Chips patent you!!

  7. Something is fishy by MushMouth · · Score: -1, Troll
    Acording to the abstract these are only a decade old or so

    4,702,808 Filed: March 15, 1985

    5,131,941 Filed: May 7, 1991

    do the editors even read the shit they post?

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  10. In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... ideas patent YOU!

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