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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Intel vs NEC Microcode suit(s)
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Date: Sun, 3-Nov-85 21:20:20 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  3 21:20:20 1985
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NEC has asked the US District Court (San Jose, CA) for a summary
judgement that Intel has lost its copyright to microcode for the
8086, 8088 by not requiring that second-source manufacturers put
a copyright sticker on each chip.  This is in addition to earlier
NEC claims that microcode can't be copyrighted.  If NEC prevails
then the legal problems with marketing the V chips will be solved
in NEC's favor.
  (This is my summary of a news item in Electronics, Oct. 28, p. 11.)
--henry schaffer