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To: TGPTNDR who wrote (171568)	10/12/2002 11:13:45 AM
From: NITT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

re:"interesting statements in the agreement" This all makes sense. Intel's chips will be OK if Intel pay the license fee or redesigns the offending portion, but Intergraph has other system patents that may or may not be infringed upon in a system design. If Intergraph was still in the system business, they would need to negotiate with the holders of various system patents in order to build a their system. IBM, HP and others have their own portfolio that Intergraph would need to license if they were still in the system business. Intergraph is now a service company with some IP, so they no longer need the patents of others, so they get to be toll collector. There may be existing cross license agreements between Intergraph and the system oems... we will see. Intergraph needs to be reasonable if they expect to create a sustainable revenue stream from IP. Get too greedy and everyone designs around your patents. Also, there is the danger of running into prior art at one of the system houses that could invalidate some of the patents. Nitt