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Intellectual Property

May 17, 2000

Patent Case Centers on CEO's Allegedly Stolen Notebooks

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco has not seen so many pinstripes in one place since the New York Yankees were in town. An extraordinary two-day hearing in a hotly contested patent infringement case aired claims by defendants last week that plaintiff Aptix Corp. engaged in intentional litigation misconduct when the company's founder and chief executive officer allegedly altered or fabricated entries in his notebooks for the firm's patent on programmable circuit boards.

By Pamela A. MacLean
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco has not seen so many pinstripes in one place since the New York Yankees were in town.
        An extraordinary two-day hearing in a hotly contested patent infringement c...

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