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To: Pat Hughes who wrote (49871)	8/15/2000 2:48:24 PM
From: gnuman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Pat, re: At the conference call Tate did say to expect a large increase in legal fees with no off-setting revenues. I'd suggest that if this results in validation of the IP, there will eventually be significant off-setting revenues.

To: Pat Hughes who wrote (49871)	8/15/2000 2:58:17 PM
From: Don Green	Respond to of 93625

Pat I do remember that issue being addressed. But wonder if they had this many suits in mind. Between Legal and warrants/options obligations it's got to be a big hit on the bottom in some upcoming qtr. Don

To: Pat Hughes who wrote (49871)	8/15/2000 8:36:21 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Re: Tate did say to expect a large increase in legal fees with no off-setting revenues Huh. As though he expects those costs to materially affect the stock. How much could a law suit cost? Let's run some numbers... 3 Senior partners at $650/hour. 8 Parnters at 450/hour. 20 Associates at 200/hour. Billing an average of 4 hours per day on the case. With an overhead charge rate of 1.25 to cover secretarial, lexis, westlaw, etc. Is $3.1 million per quarter + air fare, hotel, and misc. expenses for the inevitable meetings - maybe another 400K/quarter. Call it $3.5 million per quarter in costs. Infineon should be able to drag this out for several years, at least. :-) Dan