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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (14624)	6/20/1998 1:49:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77400

>>These companies have very few patents to speak of, in relative terms, because they are not close to pure science, as in the sense that Bell Labs, Sandia Labs and IBM's T.J. Watson Jr. were, IMO. And Bell has been around ten times as long as Cisco and was funded by US public largess for most of that period as the government approved monopoly. In a large sense, all those patents up until the 1980's breakup and deregulation should be viewed as belonging to the US public since they had no choice but to pay for it.