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To: Joe13579 who wrote (16771)	6/23/1998 12:19:00 AM
From: trendmastr	Respond to of 29386

This from a post on Yahoo! ANCR thread: <<Also check out staff Paul is building; just hired a guy that helped take QNTM from "0" to 300M>> Anyone know anything about this? tm

To: Joe13579 who wrote (16771)	6/23/1998 12:41:00 AM
From: George Dawson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

Robert, Ancor has what appears to be the patent on FC switching - it is over 10 years old at this time: patents.ibm.com Doing similar searches on this server for Brocade yields no patents and for Vixel/Arcxel yields 11 patents but none seems to be specific to switching. I asked a similar question in the past, about whether a unique ASIC could be patented. I asked Cal Nelson about this at the 1997 shareholders' meeting. He said that Ancor was very conscious of their intellectual property - but would not comment on whether they were pursuing more patents. Not being a patent attorney, I don't know what to make of this. George D.