I thought this deserved a better (more pronounced) subject line than
my prior post:

PalmChip bus patent threatens most SoCs

http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20030801S0043







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On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 12:23:23 -0400, "Rufus V. Smith"
<nospam@nospam.net> wrote:

When push comes to shove, it is pretty clear that this isn't
"non obvious to a practitioner in the field." Just about
everyone realized tristating on chip was to be avoided and they
avoided it. It's a patent. But it's going to be pretty hard to
defend, once it gets into court. Particularly so, because there
will be plenty of money available to break it, I suspect.

Jon