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To: Walter Morton who wrote (15616)	10/26/2000 9:49:41 PM
From: Jon Tara	Respond to of 18366

"The data structures described in the '119 patent can communicate the format and other organizational structure of the rights managed content so that so that users can access the content seamlessly." As can hundreds of possible alternate implementations. I can think of a dozen similar precedents that preceed this patent by years. For example, in Windows, you can select a file of any type, and it's automagically associated with the correct application! Yowza! How'd they do that? Closer to home, the Windows multimedia file structures, including, for example, .avi and .asf files, do indeed "communicate the the format and other organization structure of the rights managed content so that users can access the content seamlessly". In other words, there are some bytes in a file header that tell you what kind of content it contains, what kind of Codec is needed to play it, etc. Wow, whata concept! The EDIG patent will only be applicable in a very narrow and limited sense, and, while it may protect their products from pludering, it isn't going to result in a groundswell of royalty payments. This stuff is obvious, and is hardly new or unique. (BTW, Walter, you might try to find a link that works.)