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To: JC Jaros who wrote (29196)	3/20/2000 4:00:00 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Dear JC: Maybe SUNW is setting up a profit center to earn royalties through suits like TI used to do? Sun Micro Seeks Payments From Kingston Tech, LA Times Says Palo Alto, California, March 20 (Bloomberg) -- Sun Microsystems Inc. is seeking an undisclosed amount of royalty payments from Kingston Technology Co. for allegedly taking over six patented technologies for the way that memory chips are put on modules that go into computers, the Los Angeles Times reported. Closely held Kingston contends the patents don't cover ordinary designs, though the memory modules covered by the patents represent about 80 percent of all products that Kingston makes. The lawsuit, filed in July, is one of a growing number of suits testing the limits of what can be covered by patents, which are being awarded in increasing numbers for technical innovations, the paper said. A federal judge last month cleared the way for a jury to decide whether Microsoft Corp. has the right to develop versions of Sun's By the way, I continue to hear SMART CARD mentioned and am still wondering, is there any revenue coming SUNW's way from Java or Jini on this? JDN