Mike Hord wrote:

>Grrrr.  Read the patent abstracts for the patent numbers cited in the
>suit.  Essentially, Microchip patented the concept of an n-bit
>microcontroller with n or fewer I/O pins.
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>Which leaves me wondering about 8-pin Atmel parts.  6 I/O pins...
>have they had a suit there, too?
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>Mike H.
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>On 4/13/06, Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>This is interesting.
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>>http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=0FNB25SVNRMOIQSNDBOCKICCJUMEKJVN?articleID=185301018
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Microchip is going after all these guys with the same patent numbers. I 
doubt that MicroChip will win.

--Bob

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