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To: Dale Stempson who wrote (6733)	6/21/1998 12:14:00 AM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7685

>>Nomai seems to have little trouble getting around existing patents and trademarks.<< Nomai was able to get around the Zip patent by designing a reflector that worked with Iomega's built-in authorizer diode. Since all Zip drives (except some laptops) were made with this diode/reflector configuration, the patented Zip reflector was not needed in order for Zip media to work. Nomai simply designed a simple parabolic reflector that aimed the reflection back at a specific point. This is why Nomai discs supposedly can't work with laptops, because the distance and angle of the light emitter are different. If Zip drives were made with a more randomly placed diode, the security most likely would have worked. I don't know what kind of security Syquest designed into SparQ. But if they did design an authorization device, one can only think it can't be as badly executed as by Iomega.