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To: jbn3 who wrote (21506)	11/13/1997 10:42:00 PM
From: Meathead	Respond to of 176387

Regarding Dell's patents: There aren't any I know of pertaining to the Operations side of things. Most are design or utility patents. Utility patents such as methods for predicting hard drive failures or improved interrupt handling... lot's of electrical stuff like that. There have been many design patents granted for Dell's industry leading chassis design (sorry Compaq, Dell wins hands down in this department). Dell's design efforts are squarely focused on the corporate need for speed and simplicity of servicability not the fancy colorful high-tech shiny plastic crapola us consumers crave. Dell has substantially built up it's patent portfolio over the past several years. This has helped them especially with TI and IBM in cross-licensing agreements. They pay considerably less in royalties than other companies with less barganing power to use certain PC related technologies. MEATHEAD