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IANAL but you may want to read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit_layout_desi...

and AFAIK the 6502 and 8051 have been around for long enough that any patents they may have had are already expired; the last time I looked up this info, the 486 subset was already patent-free, and the Pentium patents were soon to expire.




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