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To: Tom Hoff who wrote (5995)	3/6/2001 11:31:32 PM
From: alfranco	Respond to of 8393

Tom, your post seems to have had a salutary effect on ECD patent counsel judging by today's action. Very glad to hear from you. With Texaco's general $ infusion last May I think patent counsel has the necessary war chest. Thanks to you I've got my homework (Ritec,CMC,Mitsubishi, & Ricoh) cut out for me but preliminary shows that CMC speaks of being the leading CD-RW manuf & they estimated global production of CD-RW media at 600 mill disks for 2000 and were proud to announce negotiating a license with Philips on basic CD patent technology, all while announcing ~400% quarterly year over year increases in revs and profits. Philips got their attention, maybe Troy is next. "If ECD filed a FTC suit this would be taken care of pronto." And it looks like ECD legals are finally in the mood. Meanwhile I am definitely ready to see ECD move beyond the patent protection/begrudging royalty collections and on to the thin-film proprietary manufacturing processes of rechargeable batteries/hydrides and rewritable DVDs at high speed/low cost... time to play roll to roll hard ball. Regards, Al