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To: The Phoenix who wrote (9616)	9/22/1999 9:53:00 PM
From: Techplayer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21876

Gary, That was prior to these acquisitions. I would bet that the cross licensing covers very specific technologies and is not a blanket agreement covering new additions to eachother's arsenals. please correct me if I am wrong. LU spends quite a bit on its legal team. I can't imagine that they left a carte blanche deal on the table between the 2 companies. Brian

To: The Phoenix who wrote (9616)	9/23/1999 4:35:00 PM
From: bill c.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21876

Gary, How did you read "patent infringement" in this statement? Russo stated that Lucent has over 2000 patents in the optical field. She didn't say Cisco infringes on any of the patents? The 2,000 patents is to indicated that it going to take more than 2 purchases by Cicso to compete against Lucent in the optical field. Let me add on the last part of that sentence... In those deals, Cisco paid nearly $7 billion for two optical networking companies, Cerent and Monterey Networks, in order to bec ome a leader in optical hardware used by big data networks. Cisco can pick up "two companies,' she says, but Lucent can flex "over 2,000 patents alone in the optical field" and "either already has or will soon have what Cisco is acquiring."