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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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The Asian electronics industry takes off In 1995, Tan resigned from Sanyo and purchased Trek, a small, family-run electronics component trading firm in his old neighborhood of Geylang, for just shy of US $1 million. An appeals court in the United Kingdom, however, was not persuaded, and Trek lost its patent there in 2008.

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