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To: Alan Markoff who wrote (1392)	5/29/1998 8:11:00 AM
From: Ga Bard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4142

Great Post Alan ... I agreed and the warrants are the play. Some of the new investors though like Y2K are to impatience and instead of making a lot on the warrants they sell on Greed. LOL first time I ever heard of some losing money on a no risk scenario. Unbelieveable. MMs and savvy investors are making a double out and it lost $1.2K ... enough said LOL GB PS if he exercise warrants he was only one I know yesterday. LOL

To: Alan Markoff who wrote (1392)	5/29/1998 9:07:00 AM
From: makin_dough99	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4142

"P" DAY !!!

To: Alan Markoff who wrote (1392)	5/29/1998 10:49:00 AM
From: Jay Lowe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4142

Great report, Alan, and much appreciated. Your observations on the trading patterns are right on. Unless you are extremely fast on your feet, it's best to just buy and hold. The product seems to be for real and it's market is unconceivably large. Even if it's just YAA "Yet Another Ethanol" still the market for it is huge and the company is handling the distribution concept in an interesting way with the "mobile" plant design. This is really good stuff. I have been harboring a concern about the repeated "world-wide patent rights" language. Having been down the patent path myself (two applications filed), I have some insight viz my patent attorney about the complications of foreign patents ... you have to file separately in each country, one by one, and pay humongous fees for each country in which you want coverage. There is no "global" patent system ... the would-be patenter has to deal with each country on it's own terms ... and in it's own language! One of the stiffest fees for foreign patent filings is the translation costs. Only exception to the onesies-rule is that you can get a weak form of protection for a cluster of european countries with a single filing ... but the protection is not as strong as separate filings in each country. So when I've heard "world-wide patent rights in 100 countries", I've grit my teeth a bit, since I KNOW the writer of that language didn't have a clue what they were claiming. Actually, there are deadlines to file applications in foreign countries after filing for a US Patent ... so the company would have had to perform individual filings in each of 100 countries (at maybe $20,000 each) for a total of $20M dollars in patent fees and costs. So, even though I am no patent expert, the loose (to me) claims being thrown around in the PRs were setting my teeth on edge. So, I will take an action item to call Fisher and discuss this. I haven't, because the "world-wide" business is moot ... I only care about the US market right now ... and the loose language is not a red flag to me ... just a "tooth gritter" ... I can understand how such an exaggeration can easily occur in intra-corporate communication. And, hey, it may be fact. I don't know yet and will report. I have examined the US patents in detail and they appear to be in good shape.