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From: sjl@amdahl.UUCP (Steve Langdon)
Newsgroups: net.lan
Subject: Re: Soderbloom's patent
Message-ID: <2023@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Sep-85 23:02:40 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 14 23:02:40 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 04:43:00 EDT
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Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA
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> 
>   Has there been any definite ruling on Olof Soderbloom's patent
> contention?  He alleged that his patent covers all token passing
> ring configurations.  However, the last that I read was about 2
> years ago when the whole mess was still up in the air.
> 
> Bob Devine

I heard that he recently succeeded in getting the Patent Office to reissue
the patent with significantly broader claims.  I suspect that some laywers
are going to get rich fighting about this issue when IEEE 802.5 networks
finally make it to market.
-- 
Stephen J. Langdon                  ...!{ihnp4,cbosgd,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!sjl

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