A few weeks from now will be the 45 th anniversary of the landmark patent decision, Honeywell, Inc. v. Sperry Rand Corp., et al., 180 U.S.P.Q. 673 (D. Minn. 1973). In that decision, issued on ...

Sperry Rand, alleging that Norris & Co. were using pirated Sperry Rand trade secrets, sued to enjoin them from capitalizing on any more of the know-how they had picked up before the mass decampment.

The Nazis, General Electric and Sperry-Rand all sought to harness antigravity. Next up: Boeing? Author Nick Cook has all the qualifications of a hard-nosed reporter. For more than a decade he has ...

Atanasoff discontinued development in 1942, and his work was virtually unknown until 1971, when Honeywell brought the suit against Sperry Rand to invalidate the ENIAC patent.