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To: carranza2 who wrote (54634)	8/18/2006 2:17:47 PM
From: DanD	Read Replies (1) of 196491

The thing I don't get is -- Disclose what? Were the patents registered with patent offices? Patents are public. Right? Isn't it up to users and competitors to do due diligence? It seems to me that is one of the functions of a standards body: go out and find existing patents that might be "essential" to the standard. I know I am saying nothing new, and I am sorry to take the board’s time with my drivel, but I am very confused by all of this. In my book a patent is a patent is a patent. It is the basis of intellectual property ownership and the capitalism of ideas. I feel these arguments about timing and standards bodies unsettling, not just as a Q investor, but an assault on the very idea of intellectual property ownership. Dan D.

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