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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (44831)	6/17/2000 11:58:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 93625

Z.Hed: <It is impossible to determine at the time of innovation how important that innovation might be, thus a lot of patents are indeed "garbage", yet, you need only a single critical claim to get the constitution to grant you :" ... the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the USA, or importing the invention into the USA..." > There is an old trick (or joke), at least in scientific circles: put into your writing lots of vague details and predictions - after many years some of them may become true, and you will have the bragging rights to point out to youngsters: see, I predicted this and that... So, the technique in the business of IP is as follows, as you just confirmed: put as much garbage as possible, in most incomprehensible and vague way, into your patent application - maybe later, when the main idea fails (as the original Ram Bus) and you learn something from others (JEDEC?), those vague details can be patched in continuations ("clarifications"), so you may have a chance to sue and collect... Nice "Intellectual" approach, I see...