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To: NDBFREE who wrote (33241)	6/13/2001 6:14:36 PM
From: Bridge Player	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42804

A brief clip from your link: The whole text is worth reading. << "That's devastating news! They beat us to it," said David Medved, Optical Access's CTO, when Light Reading first told him about LightPointe's patent. Medved filed for a broadly similar patent back in September 1998, about five months later than LightPointe. There's little doubt that OrAccess will also be affected, since its entire branding and marketing strategy is based on the idea of "WDM through the air." The company could not be reached for comment. What's the scenario for these companies? "That depends on how serious LightPointe is about excluding other companies from the market," says Joseph Gortych, an intellectual property attorney specialising in high technology. "In the worst case, licenses could be extremely expensive or not forthcoming at all. Or LightPointe could chose to set a reasonable license fee that companies won't mind paying." But after the initial shock has worn off, Optical Access and others will probably go to work to try to break that patent. >>