Monday, March 3, 2014

We are all aware of Patent trolls, how about, Patent delay for 45 years.



Gilbert P. Hyatt, the dogged inventor isn't some gadfly in a garden shed. He's probably made more than $150 million from a deal with Royal Philips, the Dutch electronics maker, to license 23 of his patents, including the 1990 one. Intel Corp. co-founder Robert Noyce invested in Hyatt's first company in the 1960s, according to Hyatt.


He has taken the patent office to court more than 10 times to force the agency to reconsider rejections of some of his applications. He even won a case at the Supreme Court in 2012 over what type of evidence can be presented in district court.

To me , the following sensible line

"I respect Gilbert Hyatt's work — the process of engineering is difficult," Bassett said in a telephone interview. "But innovations are more than ideas. The broader context matters. If Gilbert Hyatt had never existed, I believe the microprocessor would have developed in the same way that it did."

The link below has more details:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-blm-news-bc-inventor01-20140301,0,255272.story

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