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To: Graham Dellaire who wrote (3292)	7/7/1998 10:02:00 AM
From: edsam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5743

Graham: Do you know what the scope of V-gis patent is? Does it extract line 21 data on its own or does it rely on the closed captioning chip? Without the patent, the stock may dive even lower than it is now. The reason for concern is that the Sony V-chip patent uses a software approach to decode rating data a la V-gis. I am under the impression that the infringement study issued in May might not have covered Sony. Sony was a pending patent when the study was done. The more different the scope and implementation, the better the chance V-gis will be issued its own patent. As I have pointed out on Yahoo, the slightest difference in the equation is a different equation. Dramatically different approaches can achieve the same result. My money is still on v-gis getting its patent.