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To: Scrapps who wrote (17221)	9/3/1998 12:09:00 PM
From: David Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

So, what ever became of our buddy Jeff? Shark meat? Anyone?

To: Scrapps who wrote (17221)	9/3/1998 12:21:00 PM
From: David Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

3Com Aims To Collect Fees After Inventor Lands 56-Kbps Modem Patent =================================================================== NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Inventor Brent Townshend has been issued a U.S. patent for technology used in modems that can transmit data over ordinary phone lines at close to 56,000 bits per second, or 56 Kbps. The award comes as the modem industry is still recovering from a format war sparked by incompatible formats pushed by Rockwell International Corp. and 3Com Corp. Earlier this year, a standards group settled the dispute with the adoption of a unified 56-Kbps standard. Now, 3Com, which holds a license to the technology patented by Townshend, has announced it intends to offer the technology to other modem makers at "reasonable" terms - or $1.25 a modem. Whether competing modem makers will be interested in such a license remains unclear. Townshend's inventions were at the center of the modem war last year because some experts have said his inventions are foundation for 56-Kbps modems. But when modem makers agreed to the common standard, many companies contributed patented technologies. Townshend has additional patent applications pending and last year filed a lawsuit against Rockwell. Santa Clara, Calif.-based 3Com Corp. (COMS) last year acquired modem-market king U.S. Robotics Corp. in an $8.5 billion deal. Seal Beach, Calif.-based Rockwell (ROK) makes chips used in many brands of modems. They are letting them off too cheap!