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To: Scumbria who wrote (49534)	8/12/2000 11:26:42 PM
From: jim kelley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

A patent is a piece of property. Its worth has nothing to do with the amount of sweat poured into it. You do not seem to understand much about intellectual property. The best grades do not necessarily go to the person who works the hardest but rather to the person that does the best work. Best work in the case means most influential.

To: Scumbria who wrote (49534)	8/12/2000 11:57:03 PM
From: Barry A. Watzman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Re: "Obviously, most of their IP centers around RDRAM" It's not obvious at all. Most of the early patents (the 1990 patents) were VERY fundamental in nature: Things like transferring data on BOTH leading and trailing edges of the clock, and having an on-memory register to hold various memory parameters. These were not specific to either RDRAM or DDR or even SDRAM; they were simply fundamental characteristics of the memory that would be used in the future, and were NOT characteristics of the memory in use AT THAT TIME (e.g. 1990). That's the whole point: RDRAM, DDR or just SDRAM, it's hard to build late 90's memory, much less 21st century memory, without violating these fundamental ideas on which Rambus applied for patents in 1990.