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To: Ed Beers who wrote (81981)	6/26/2000 8:10:00 AM
From: gnuman	Respond to of 132070

Ed Beers, Thanks for the info, re: <Clean room designs are used to avoid copyright IP issues. They don't apply to patent issues.> It sounds right since I've subsequently found that clean rooms are sometimes used by software companies when designing new product. And I guess the CPU designers use them to get around micro-code copyright's. But I'm still mystified by this statement attributed to Barrett. What's your interpretation? He said: "Toshiba has agreed to pay royalties for RDRAMs, synchronous RAMs and DDR. It's not clear that Rambus has the intellectual collar. "The DRAM companies are very resourceful and can [create] their own clean room intellectual property." theregister.co.uk TIA Gene