Unfortunately that isn't my experience. I worked in a design group at Texas Instruments in the late 80's and all our patent work was written up in this level of detail whether we had any intention of using it or not. Generally the patent would be based on real R&D work which would involve real designs etc, it's just that there was no intent to take it further at that time.
At that time TI made more money per year on patent royalties and infringement law suits that it made on the all of it's semiconductor sales put together. Intellectual property was a *huge* part of TI's business, and this is much the same for other companies. In this case Pentax may well be staking claim to this idea in the hope somebody else will license it from them... then again they may well be going to production too, we wont know until it's out there. Regards, /\/\ick... - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
