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To: Climber who wrote (2310)	3/14/2000 6:27:00 PM
From: RocketMan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6516

Interesting presentation that shows the Rocket eBook as a data appliance suited to next generation CDMA. That seems to be a natural application. A wireless e-book appliance could download your morning newspaper, weekly magazines, or any other periodical you wish. And with HDR CDMA, at 2+mbps, the download would be very fast as well as providing security for the copyrighted information. Not to mention the royalties that would accrue to qcom as well as gmst :-) One thing that I yet don't understand is the patent and IPR situation with nuvomedia and softbook. I understand that the text itself would be copyrighted, and secure codes are used to protect the text. And I am not a lawyer, but it would appear to me that the reader itself would be hard to patent, or at least variations on the rocket e-book and softbook would be fairly easy to develop, the way Microsoft is planning to do. So how is Gemstar going to step ahead of its competition and develop barriers to entry? I assume first to market and branding would be critical to this, and I assume this is what Gemstar is planning, the way AOL grabbed market share and ran away from the competition. But this is a different game than Gemstar has been playing with their IPRs and patent litigation. Any comments?