The legal issue of who invented the computer was settled in April 1973 by Judge Earl Larson, who handled a patent infringement lawsuit filed by the Sperry Rand Corpora- tion, which had acquired the ENIAC patents. Sperry Rand's position was that every- body making a computer owed them royalties because it owned the key patents. The case went to trial in June 1971 and over 30,000 exhibits were entered. The court tran- script ran to over 20,000 pages. Study this case more carefully using the extensive information available on the Internet and write a report discussing the technical aspects of the case. What exactly did Eckert and Mauchley patent and why did the judge feel their system was based on Atanasoff's earlier work?