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To: axial who wrote (6441)	2/18/2000 8:18:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (2) of 12823

Hello Jim, > Okay, now I am confused. If the tenor of the last few posts is > accepted, then the vigorous IPR protection instituted by such > industry giants as Qualcomm and Cisco (and the subsequent > extraction of royalties) discourages innovation. I guess that my statement comes from a perspective that the enforcing of some patents and claims to some technologies can often cripple a market from developing ... and leave us all (the buying public) waiting for some other company to invent some alternative scheme. There have been several cases where companies have used their IPR to try and gouge the competition ... and many won't pay ... or can't pay. And so we all end up paying inflated rates, or get a solution that often locks us in to a single vendor. I really believe that in most cases, if a company wants to succeed and dominate, they actually can do it by growing* the market and allowing competition to help drive ubiquity. I think that compatibility, interoperability, and standards are what help to drive the industry forward ... Scott C. Lemon

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