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To: SurfForWealth who wrote (745)	10/23/1999 8:08:00 PM
From: Hatim Zaghloul	Respond to of 16863

Patents have complex rules. If a patent was not filed in a particular country, the patent document in that country is nothing but a disclosure which means no one else can patent the idea. For Wi-LAN, this means that outside of NA, if someone uses the technology, he does not have to pay Wi-LAN royalties unless it was manufactured in NA. Licensors generally do not split hairs. It gets too awkward to monitor where chips or products are made and where it would be sold. So companies that license IP, try to get a worldwide license and pay royalties on a worldwide basis. This of course, gets more complex if one is only licensing a patent with no actual technology to go with it. Hatim