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To: Scumbria who wrote (44866)	6/18/2000 10:27:00 AM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

I presume you have studied those 87 patents and in your great wisdom have come to the conclusion that Hitachi does not infringes. I am just using my experience in IP licensing to guide me. Typically, when one opens licensing IP rights, you start with a NDA, then you open your kimono and expose your technology, taking the risk that the opposing party will try and go around the IP. The opposing party knows the legal precedents for using information covered by an NDA and pending (then) patents, if you fail to build your products without using the IP, treble damages is the norm, and for good reasons, it remove the incentive for large corporation stealing from their smaller neighbors. It cost Kodak $6 billions to learn this lesson when they infringed on the Polaroid instant photography patents (that was the judgement, the loss was much greater, since Kodak had to write off their own investment in the technology and withdraw from the field, Polaroid rightfully would no longer offer them the license). Zeev