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To: Lonnie who wrote (310)	5/27/1998 11:06:00 AM
From: WMG	Respond to of 3383

Thank you Lonnie! Let's get the patent confusion settled. This is how patent applications, patents, inventors and assignees and the patent offices work. 1) Inventor will file an application with a patent office of a country.(US PTO for example)There are deadlines for filing the application in other countries. 2) Inventor will then assign (transfer) the patent to his employer, usually per terms of a pre-existing employment agreementor. The Corp then owns the patent. 3) The Corp will grant licenses, usually exclusive but not always, to other entities in markets where it wishes not to compete. The license agreement is an all encompassing and complicated document, if written correctly, covering territory, field of use (if it has more than one application like this one would), performance criteria, time frame, royalties, etc, etc. 4) If the application is file in the European Community under the Patent Treaty Act, it becomes a public document for viewing after 18 months. This patent probably can be viewed by ordering through one of the US PTO satellite offices (SCI-3 in San Jose, CA) for a small fee. It takes about 2 days on a rush order, maybe sooner. SCI-3 can run the search by inventor name, assignee name, or subject, over a given time span. 5) After the US PTO patent examiner has reviewed the patent and finds that the patent and its claims do not infringe any other known patent or prior patent applications, the US PTO will notify the patent owner of the "Notice of Allowance". This means that the patent will be issued a patent number (different from the application #)shortly, and become an issued patent. Time span is usually about 2 months. This is the simple and short version, unfortunately I'm out of time. Hope this helps. WMG