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To: TGPTNDR who wrote (85519)	7/22/2002 4:26:43 PM
From: Windsock	Respond to of 275872

Business Law 101 tells you to read a contract to find the details of the agreement, not listen to a PR guy's vague remarks. Restrictions can and often are placed on the field of use for a patent. A patent can then be used for some purposes and not for other purposes. Because you are so touchy about your error, I will give an example not involving AMD and Intel that you may understand. Motorola can license all its patent to make integrated circuits excepting the use of processors using the Motorola 6800 or 68000 instruction set. This is a real example that was revealed in a law suit between Motorola and Hitachi in the early 1990s. So in this case you can use a patent to make any integrated circuit and even a processor but there is no license to make a Motorola 6800. The result is that a license holder may be able a patent to use a patent for some purposes and not for others. The fact that that AMD may use all Intel patents is probably true but AMD may not be able to use a patent for all fields of use, for example an IA-64 processor.