Hey, Bill. You want to borrow my tin foil hat? <:^)
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George Patrick
Tektronix, Inc.
Central Engineering, PCB Design Group
P.O. Box 500, M/S 39-512
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It's my opinion, not Tektronix'
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From: DesignerCouncil [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Brooks,Bill
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 15:42
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [DC] Patent No.: US6,617,529 B2
Wait those holes are 'round'... that is an infringement on my 'wheel'
patent... Next I shall patent all the geometric shapes..., the triangle, the
square... let's see, polygons, hexagons,... yes, yes... TRACES!!! That's it!
(...runs down the hall madly with a trail of papers flying and floating to
the floor while he races to get to the patent lawyer's phone number... )
muuuuhaaaahaaahaaaa!!!!
Bill Brooks - KG6VVP
PCB Design Engineer , C.I.D.+, C.I.I.
Tel: (760)597-1500 Ext 3772 Fax: (760)597-1510
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin L. Seaman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 3:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [DC] Patent No.: US6,617,529 B2
DC members,
I'll patent the holes created by the drills...
Thank you,
Kevin L. Seaman
OrCAD CIS Librarian
Allegro PCB Librarian
Sr. Staff PCB Layout Engineer
Broadcom Corp. Irvine, CA
(949)926-5656 (ext. 65656)
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From: DesignerCouncil [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Scott
Nimon
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 11:09 AM
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Subject: [DC] Patent No.: US6,617,529 B2
DC members,
I have encountered a patent which any through-hole land patterns with an
annular ring of >0.4mm and used for lead-free soldering is in violation
of. We have used 0.4mm as our standard annular ring for all
through-hole devices with hole sizes greater than 1.6mm for years. A
link to the patent is provided below. Are there any IPC documents I can
use to invalidate this patent? Any suggestions or comments will be
welcomed.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL
&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,617,529.WKU.&OS=PN/6,617,
529&RS=PN/6,617,529
Scott Nimon
Yazaki North America
6801 Haggerty Road
Mail Stop: 2229E
Canton, MI 48187
Phone: 734-983-2630
Fax: 734-983-2631
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