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To: jim bender who wrote (15172)	4/8/1998 1:59:00 AM
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Benhamou to Gates: How about Paw PC? Microsoft still hopes to use 'palm' moniker By John G. Spooner, PC Week Online 04.07.98 1:15 pm ET SAN JOSE, Calif.--Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) isn't ready to throw in the "palm" towel just yet. Despite 3Com Corp. CEO Eric Benhamou's declaration Monday that Microsoft Corp. has agreed to drop the "palm" designation from its handheld PC architecture, a Microsoft official yesterday said the company still hopes to resolve the issue so that both companies can continue to use the name. Microsoft wants to retain the right to use "palm" as a descriptor for its Windows CE-based devices, said Jonathan Roberts, group director of market development for Windows CE at the Redmond, Wash., company. "Our interests and 3Com's use of the term can be resolved," Roberts said at the company's Windows CE developers conference here. "Discussions are focused on allowing us to each meet our needs in an amicable way." A likely outcome of the discussions, Roberts said, will be an agreement that allows both companies to use "palm" to describe their respective devices. Roberts would not comment, however, on whether Microsoft will discontinue its use of the term "Palm PC." At the Herring on the Enterprise conference in San Francisco on Monday, Benhamou said Microsoft will no longer use the Palm PC name and that a settlement was expected within the next few days. With an amicable agreement, 3Com would agree to drop its copyright infringement suits filed against Microsoft and its hardware partners using the term "Palm" in its reference model for palmtop devices. 3Com filed a trademark infringement suit against Microsoft in March, complaining that the Palm PC name was too similar to 3Com's PalmPilot. Microsoft had argued that the Palm PC moniker was an informal name to describe that category of devices.