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To: IanBruce who wrote (62831)	8/20/1998 1:59:00 AM
From: Jeff Fox	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Ian, re: "prior art"? - Rubbish! Perhaps you could figure it out before you go preaching. Who knows, somebody reading your post might actually believe you and go say or do something equally dumb... From your post: I said that the technology which serves as the core of the Merced isn't owned by Intel. This conclusion is based not on conjecture, but on reports and links I've already provided from C-Net and other sources. An excerpt: Exponential filed for its various patents first, however, giving those plans status as "prior art" over the Merced patents. With this designation, the Exponential patents can theoretically supersede Intel's patents... Your quoted article merely says that Exponential filed patents before Intel filed Merced-specific patents. That is all it says. The rest is total speculation on the part of the author. In fact there is no claim that the author even knows anything about the content of either patents. Rest assured that Intel (and HP) own Merced technology. Jeff

To: IanBruce who wrote (62831)	8/20/1998 2:13:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: "I said that the technology which serves as the core of the Merced isn't owned by Intel. This conclusion is based not on conjecture, but on reports and links I've already provided from C-Net and other sources. An excerpt: Exponential filed for its various patents first, however, giving those plans status as "prior art" over the Merced patents. With this designation, the Exponential patents can theoretically supersede Intel's patents..." Ian, Intel removed the bipolar steps from their fab process years ago, but there are more important points. For you to take these statements and project them to justify your claims that others hold patents which supersede Intels go far beyond conjecture and enter the relm of wishful speculation or pure fantasy. Yes I know it's not you speaking these quotes, but it's you quoting these sources to justify your outlandish claims. References to idle speculation do not a fact make. No one has ever claimed, much less established, that the technology which serves as the core for Merced is owned by anyone else, yet you claim this as though it were fact. You are begging the title of lunatic. Do yourself a favor and do your homework before you make any more stupid statements. EP

To: IanBruce who wrote (62831)	8/20/1998 7:16:00 AM
From: Dave	Respond to of 186894

Ian: Exponential filed for its various patents first, however, giving those plans status as "prior art" over the Merced patents. With this designation, the Exponential patents can theoretically supersede Intel's patents... <http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,18791,00.html> That's not me talking -- that's quoted directly from a C-Net news report. It sounds like plain English to me. I should also point out that as Intel is an investor in C-Net, any bias in the reporting would likely fall on Intel's side. It's why I provided them as a source in the first place. If that is true, then the current owner of these patents will have to sue Intel. I hope they have deep pockets. If these patents do read as "prior art" on Intel's Merced patents, the current owner of these patents will sue for patent infringement and invalidate Intel's Merced Patents. Of course, the common strategy for Intel will be to try to Invalidate those Exponential patents. dave