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To: wm sharp who wrote (4481)	10/20/1998 7:42:00 PM
From: jean1057	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27311

are this 206 World wide patents or United States only...and what would happen if Samsung or Sanyo....or any other company would produce the battery outside the US...how could one enforce the US patents....in Korea, Japan etc...anybody knowledgable about that..????. BTW we need a CFO........

To: wm sharp who wrote (4481)	10/20/1998 11:16:00 PM
From: FMK	Respond to of 27311

Nice work Bill- The Manganese Oxide patent is especially significant, IMO, because it would appear to prevent others from using this low-cost cathode material. Very tough on competition. If the European community prohibits the use of Cobalt as an environmental hazard as I have heard is a definite possibility, those with rights to alternative cathode materials will have a unique advantage there, as the industry-standard 18650 cylindrical canister-type cells use cobalt-oxide.