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To: John Walliker who wrote (71533)	5/2/2001 7:21:58 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

John, If Rambus has some kind of claim for having a multiplexed bus, the patent office was blatantly negligent for giving it to them, and the patent can't be worth very much- by any reasonable standard. Scumbria

To: John Walliker who wrote (71533)	5/2/2001 7:22:44 AM
From: SBHX	Respond to of 93625

To really address that, one has to really read the claims themselves --- it sounds like too much work for one barely versed in the art like me <g>. Based on my limited understanding of how patents work. It is the claims themselves that really matters in anyway. If for example, some of the claims describe the initialization behaviour with multiplex-bus, then there is a chance it applies. If all the claims related to the mux bus refer to data transfer, rd/wr, address decoding, then they don't apply. I guess I should sit down to read them to complete this experience, but it's much more interesting to hear what the experts here talk about.