United States federal district court decision, 180 U.S.P.Q. 673 (D. Minn. 1973), decided October 19, 1973 by Judge Earl R. Larson after a trial running from June 1971. The court held the 1964 ENIAC patent, credited to J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, invalid: it found Eckert and Mauchly had derived the electronic digital computer's key subject matter from John Vincent Atanasoff's prior Atanasoff-Berry Computer, and it placed the invention of the electronic digital computer in the public domain. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Publication Year1973
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell,_Inc._v._Sperry_Rand_Corp.
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Honeywell, Inc. v. Sperry Rand Corp. (1973)
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