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To: Pancho Villa who wrote (33222)9/30/1997 11:23:00 AM
From: Barry A. Watzman   of 186894
 
>re: DEC lawsuit

First, ANY verdict, if there EVER is one (the suit will most likely be settled out-of-court) is probably five to ten years away.

Second, don't forget that Intel has counter sued charging DEC with even more patent violations than DEC charged with Intel. The likely outcome, if it ever goes to trial, is that both sides would prevail on SOME of their claims.

One of the problems with suits like this is that many recent trials have shown that justice isn't always just. Having these kinds of issues determined by a jury of lay people, or even a judge who isn't a computer engineer, turns what might otherwise be a legitimate suit into a game of roulette; the outcome becomes disconnected from the facts and the merit, and unpredictable.

BOTH Intel and DEC have to much at stake in these suits (Plural) to let them go to a trial verdict.
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