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To: Nancy McKinney who wrote (138)	9/10/2000 11:18:01 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 381

Nancy, excellent observations. In one short paragraph you have listed the following red flags: 1. "The product sounds good, but the co. has a questionable history." 2. "Information about the patent and the source of it should not be a secret" 3. "PR's about the new co. logo... [are] more important than answering patent info" Add to your list all the technical details offered up here by Jorj, Wireless, and Yardslave that make the claims about Swomi sound highly dubious even if it does somehow really exist, and I can't see why anyone would even think twice about putting even play money on BIFS. Toss in a bunch of diehard Biffster lunatics that have made it their mission to harass Janice wherever she goes (see the AZNT thread on RB), and you have recipe for disaster. I've seen it time and time again: the more noise people make to the SEC about their stock being under siege by shorts and bashers, the more the SEC takes an interest in the "situation", and the faster, ummm, bad things happen to shareholders when the truth is revealed. - Jeff

To: Nancy McKinney who wrote (138)	9/18/2000 12:18:10 AM
From: scion	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 381

Nancy The US patent numbers have to be public domain - but the RB Biffoons don't know much about intellectual property, and keeping referring to trade secrets instead. The coyness about the US patent numbers erodes their credibility. If they have valid patents, they'll have to produce the patent numbers, and keeping them "well hidden" is a silly statement. The USPTO does not check for possible infringement of other patents when considering a patent application prior to granting any patent - that's the company/inventor(s) problem. If they have infringed existing patents, they can expect lawsuits. They should also have the FCC Equipment approval numbers, and FCC registrations for their antennas. Needless to say, the Biffoons don't really understand any of the technical claims they make, and I suspect the "well hidden" firmware patents Knabb refers to had better be produced very soon if they expect to stay in business. scion