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To: Barry Grossman who wrote (52711)	9/6/2000 3:34:56 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 93625

Rambus hasn't threatened anybody. You can keep repeating that if you want, Barry. Deja vu all over again and all that. But, as I posted in response to a previous similar assertion of yours: "Any company can fight us in court, but if we win we can choose not to license them anymore," Kanadjian said. infoworld.com The response to that one was a sampler of typical Rambus logic, that's not a threat, and it's good a good thing they made that threat, too. You also might like to consider the conclusion to an article that Jim Kelley posted; Jim of course wasn't much interested in the conclusion after he picked out the bit he liked. The cases discussed above show that companies accused of patent infringement in U.S. litigation will scrutinize the way in which the patents asserted against them were obtained, the grounds plaintiffs had for charging infringement and the competitive strategies plaintiff used in attempting to increase its market share and lessen that of the accused infringers. The reciprocal of this scrutiny is the need for potential plaintiffs to prosecute patents carefully, anticipating litigation, to base infringement charges in reliable tests and inferences and to carefully avoid overstatements or hollow threats in dealing with the customers of accused infringers. ablondifoster.com Of course, Dick knows that personally I find hollow threats sort of amusing. Cheers, Dan.