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Technology Stocks : IMPX - When Will the Dead Money Awaken?
IMPX 6.210+13.3%Oct 22 3:59 PM EST

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To: Sheldon C. who wrote (203)2/25/1998 7:42:00 PM
From: slob   of 532
 
Sheldon, Interesting but IMHO not worth much.

The problem with patents like this one is that they are very difficult to enforce. Just to prove that someone is violating your patent you have to reverse engineer their part and process. This is expensive and not something that you would do unless you wanted to force a competitor out of a socket. I don't think that IMPX has any sockets or designs where they would be interested in enforcing a patent.

From a technology point lots of people have low Vt (0.2 - 0.3V) devices that are typically used in cascoded amp and regulator stages especially for low voltage applications, for the most part these devices are being used to enable standard 5V analog amp and regulator circuits to function at around 2V. Once you start looking at analog in sub 2.0V applications you need to change over to current mode circuits so the value of the low Vt's is minimal anyway.

Just my thoughts

Slob
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