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From: barr@frog.UUCP (Chris Barr)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: FDDI/Soderblum(?)
Summary: He patented token ring
Message-ID: <1426@frog.UUCP>
Date: 16 May 89 18:09:00 GMT
References: <YYOB=wS00UoJM0j0oe@andrew.cmu.edu> <30504@apple.Apple.COM> <2621@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Organization: Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA
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In article <2621@helios.ee.lbl.gov>, rlfink@ux3.lbl.gov (Robert Fink) writes:
> Though many folk assume the Soderblom patent pervails in all of these
> cases, it is still not clear.

As I understand it, this Swedish engineer patented the TOKEN RING.  Some
vendors (e.g. from '76 to (present?), Prime Computer) have been selling
token rings while fending off patent infringement lawsuits from 
Soderblum(sp?).  IBM pays royalties.