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To: pompsander who wrote (38874)	3/24/2000 4:53:00 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Respond to of 93625

Pomp, when RMBS filed the first suit, Hitachi and the whole DRAM industry got together to look into their own "disclosure books" and records to see if anywhere within the chip industry someone came up with similar ideas. In the US, patent rights are given to the "first to invent" and all you need is well documented paper trail fo such inventions. Of course, I have difficulties seeing the DRAM industry allocating resources to speed up comm. with CPU to the Gbit/sec range when CPU's were struggling at the 50 MHz in 1990 (when RMBS filed their first patents, I believe) so the likelihood of such a paper trail is minimal. Xerox Palo Alto might have been working on something like that and if the DRAM industry can persuade Xerox to open their "books" maybe they have a chance. Zeev