One of the longest, strangest patent cases on record

先週アリゾナ連邦地裁で長い、長い、知財裁判に決着がついたそうです。(LINK)

The story begins all the way back in the 1970s, when W.L. Gore, the company that produces Gore-Tex, asked a young doctor named David Goldfarb to work on possible medical applications for its Teflon-like textile. Goldfarb's lab developed a breakthrough vascular graft. "This was a profound invention," Cherny said.