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Intellectual Property

Aug. 6, 2003

Riding Out the Storm

SUNNYVALE - Ed Taylor's career as a patent lawyer started innocuously enough. As the youngest associate in a small patent firm in Los Angeles, Taylor drew the unglamorous assignment of helping a fledgling 12-employee company from Mountain View secure patents on a tiny silicon chip containing 2,300 microscopic electronic transistors.

By Xenia P. Kobylarz
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SUNNYVALE - Ed Taylor's career as a patent lawyer started innocuously enough. As the youngest associate in a small patent firm in Los Angeles, Taylor drew the unglamorous assignment of helping a fledgling 12-employee company from Mountain View secure patents on a tiny silicon chip containing 2,300 mic...

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