IP: Claims versus reality

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Ari Ollikainen <Ari () OLTECO com>
Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 12:47:47 -0700



    Recently, I read the CSL Colloquium announcement for
    Wed May 15, 2002 of a talk on Subwavelength Geometries
    by Stanley Mazor. The information about the speaker included
    the following:


> In 1969 Stan joined the then-startup Intel Corporation, where he
> developed architecture specifications for the industry's first
> microprocessors, including the Intel 4004 and 8080, for which he
shares the fundamental design patents.

    As a recent patent awardee (US Patent 6,377,981), I'm probably
    a bit more sensitive about people's claims regarding patents, so
    I checked the USPTO's database and found **NO** patents relating
    to the aforementioned microprocessors filed by Intel with
    Mr. Mazor's name on them. He is a named as a co-inventor with
    Federico Faggin and Masatoshi Shima on US Patent 4,010,449 titled
    "MOS computer employing a plurality of separate chips" which was
    filed 12/31/74 and issued 3/1/77.



    Having missed being designated an "inventor" on a number of
    patents in my career, I can commiserate with Mr. Mazor if he
    contributed key intellectual property without being recognized.



 


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