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To: Windsock who wrote (160453)2/27/2002 11:43:29 AM
From: TGPTNDR  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Windsock, Re: < Intel had a patent license with National Semiconductor. National bought Fairchild that owned the Clipper technology and patents. National then transferred Clipper to Intergraph.

Intel claimed that the National cross license included the Clipper patents because they were purchased by National.>

Wrong. National never had any claim to the patents in question.

1987: Schlumberger Ltd., which owns Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, agrees to sell Fairchild to National Semiconductor Corporation. National agrees to sell Fairchild's Advanced Processor Division (APD) to Intergraph. (APD had originally developed and sold the Clipper microprocessor which Intergraph used in its workstations.) Through a three-way contract between Intergraph, Fairchild, and National Semiconductor, all assets of APD passed directly from Fairchild to Intergraph, without going through National. As part of the acquisition of APD, Intergraph acquired all rights to the Clipper and to all of the patent applications that were filed on the Clipper. Five of these patent applications later became the five patents (see below) which are named in Intergraph's suit against Intel.
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However, two facts totally discredit Intel's claims:

All of APD's intellectual property (including the Clipper design) passed directly from Fairchild to Intergraph and was never owned by National Semiconductor. Thus this intellectual property never could have come under National's cross-licensing agreement with Intel.

The patents didn't exist until 1990-92 - and then were issued to Intergraph, NOT to Fairchild or National.

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