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Technology Stocks : XYBR - Xybernaut
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To: Paul Merriwether who wrote (130)9/30/1997 11:35:00 AM
From: choban   of 6847
 
Paul, Let me respond to your answers to my questions.

1)Whether XYBR does voice using conversation or they use only application sensitive commands, you are still talking time and money which they don't have a lot of compared to Bill Gates. If MSFT plans to buy a company in the voice arena, then Dragon Systems would be much more attractive than XYBR.

2)A walkman uses a lot less power than a Wearable computer with color display, wireless VTC, and duplex voice. If the battery technology was there using Lithium, then your laptops would be able to run for more than 4 hours. The fact that all the Notebook makers are working on this problem is not necessarily good news for Sony/XYBR. Do you think that Compaq will readily share a battery breakthough with Sony/XYBR before or after they use it as a competitive advantage to sell a competing product to Sony's?

3)Speaking from the perspective of an attorney trying to defend XYBR's patent from infringement, would you rather have a tightly written specific patent or a BROAD patent like XYBR has which is subject to many interpretations? I think that the SONY partnership has more to do with XYBR hiring the ex-Sony walkman exec than with any usable patents.

4)You answered why XYBR needs SONY, but did not address why SONY needs XYBR. Sony is not going to get rich off of royalties from XYBR's military sales relative to their consumer business.

5)I have a litmus test on deals like this for predicting future success. If big up front money is committed by Sony, then it will probably work out. But if all XYBR gets is press releases and the opportunity to invest their own money, then it will be difficult for XYBR to make money.

6)Do you work for or with XYBR?
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