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To: Dan3 who wrote (53551)	9/16/2000 12:04:08 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 93625

Dan3... I've got an idea...why don't we patent LINUX? It's public domain isn't it? Then we can sue all the Linux boxers and users for royalties...we'll get rich... Jim

To: Dan3 who wrote (53551)	9/16/2000 12:59:59 PM
From: John Walliker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Dan3, Double clocking and on chip registers were around for years before Rambus was a company, much less filed for patents. They are standard techniques regularly applied But not applied to memory interfaces. There were no memories available with on-chip registers to control the delay of an output latch. Were there? Other companies in the business thought such a combination too obvious to attempt to patent. In which case they could have published a report in Electronics Letters or somewhere similar just to make sure that nobody else could patent it. They didn't. Publication is a very effective way of protecting an idea against being patented by somebody else. One of my publications was used as evidence in court to invalidate a patent for the use of neural networks in hearing aids. John