Segway May Face Patent Trouble In Japan

15 January 2002 - 10:00am

A Japanese robotics professor claims the Segway Human Transporter resembles a patented machine he invented 15 years ago.

"The Segway is essentially a motorized parallel bicycle, with wheels side by side instead of front to back. If they claim that they did it first, it wouldn't be fair to me or my university. We did the research."

Source: CNET News, January 13, 2002
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