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RSpal1
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6 years ago

Do you think that Intel stole the idea of the Thunderbolt port from my Uncle's patent?

(I'm not quite sure if this is the correct thread to post this on so I'm sorry if it isn't) My uncle (Kirby H Spalding) thought of having a port with an embedded chip controller that would be able t...
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ak6dn
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6 years ago

Short answer, no. Your uncle's patent has only one claim (the other claims 2-5 are based on claim 1) and claim 1 is a very specific implementation of a physical connector. Could be worked around without much difficulty.