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To: Idomeneus who wrote (11076)	4/12/1998 10:36:00 AM
From: Phillip C. Lee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213176

Supposedly, this money was to settle all outstanding patent lawsuits between Microsoft and Apple, and to insure no further patent lawsuits for the next 5 years. The amount Microsoft is paying Apple is unknown, but rumors/guesses have ranged from $200 million to $1 billion. Do you know when the amount you mentioned above will start to kick in? If not, when would you guess will be an appropriate time frame? So far, the amount of such cash injection doesn't seem to be mentioned in SEC files yet. Are any patents to be utilized by Microsoft in the future published? If this amount of cash was used to compensate on Job's loss in '80's, then that 17m shares may enable to be justified. Phil