Texas Instruments vs. Fairchild: The Patent Battle of Integrated Circuits
On February 6, 1959, a four-page application containing images and five pages of text was officially submitted to the United States Patent Office. This was Texas Instruments’ (TI) patent application for the concept of monolithic integration, which is the first patent for what we now know as the ubiquitous Integrated Circuit (IC). As the inventor, … Read more