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To: James Sinclair who wrote (7387)	12/9/1999 8:27:00 PM
From: Dinesh	Read Replies (1) of 9068

James > My worst case scenario is that Citrix ends up paying some royalties to GraphOn, < Unless they can find some other way of implementing the GUI calls conversion. Remember, patents are for specific inventions, not a general method. That some IP executive from IBM joined GraphOn does not automatically grant it some supernatural powers. Two things actually immediately leap to mind: (1) GraphOn bot this patent from somebody. How much was it worth then ? (2) John Sculley and Noise Cancellation. When he got the boot from Apple, he joined NC. The stock jumped many-fold (this was before the dot com era), and tanked just as soon. Sculley couldn't confer validatation to whatever it was that Noise did. (actually there are more juicy tidbits to the story but I'll let you research that :-) Actually, a 3rd thing also leaps to mind -- the smartness of IBM sr execs. I am of course not a lawyer. But, for the moment I am going to ignore this lawsuit and concentrate on the business. -Dinesh

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