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To: bill c. who wrote (14608)	6/19/1998 9:36:00 AM
From: aladin	Read Replies (2) of 77400

Hi, 1st off - the article stated that Lucent had been pursuing this for 18 months when cisco countered. No one takes these things lightly. However, before everyone goes nuts - this is NOT about chemistry or medicine where a patent covers an entire product (eg Viagra or Equal/Aspartame). Its extremely common to patent and license and disagree on fees (and sue/countersue) in the telecom and computer industry. Lucent owns LOTS of patents and regularly licenses them. An example is: lucent.com If no one licensed, there could be no interoperability and patents would be worthless. Data comm was built on open standards so we write lots of RFC's (but few patents - although that may change :-). John speaking as an engineer - not as an employee

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