In my desire to research the 148 regarding the Talbot reference in light of the current litigation, I visited the USPTO website and there it was posted for the world to see, the 148 had expired due to failure to pay maintenance fees. In my three subsequent phone calls to the USPTO, not one person there said that the patent life had expired due to the natural life expectancy. In fact, there was some confusion as to what the real expiration date is/was.
Furthermore, if you are an investor considering purchasing PTSC stock and you visited PTSC's website where you will see the below information, how would you ever know that the 148 expired, regardless of the reason? I believe that Patriot has an obligation to provide correct information on its website for all shareholders and potential shareholders alike.
U.S. 5,809,336: Clocking CPU and I/O Separately
- U.S. 6,598,148: Use of Multiple Cores and Embedded Memory
- U.S. 5,784,584: Multiple Instruction Fetch
Both Patriot Scientific and The TPL Group assert that these patents, which were granted in 1998 and which are valid through 2015, have long been essential to the design of modern high-speed microprocessors.
(emphases by me)