RE: TT "Q" Dumb Question

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <01BEFAFC.5102E780.dmr@kwic.com> Don Muirhead writes:

> Audi has filed 289 Patents since 1976.  None refer to any application
> pertaining to the Quattro system so either they didn't bother to put a
> patent on it; couldn't get it; somebody else actually owns it and Audi
> was/is licensed to manufacture and market it.  Another possibility is that
> it was invented prior to 1976 and they have made absolutely no
> changes/modifications to the original design.

You didn't go back nearly far enough to cover the ur-ur-quattro, the
Iltis.

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 Phil Payne
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