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To: Dave who wrote (21199)	1/26/1999 6:53:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 77400

Bell Labs Patent Spoofing "[Borovoy] proved himself wrong. Two hours and and a couple of dozen notebooks later, the lawyer pulled out a notebook belonging to a researcher named Fuller and compared it with the contents of the Derick and Frosch patent. My God, there's the Derick and Frosch patent, and here's the same goddamn thing in the other guy's notebook, nine months before. ... There was clearly a motive: If it could hold off from patenting the idea until after the [DOJ] deadline, then Ma Bell might be able to earn some royalties from it. But misattributing and misdating an invention weren't allowed under the patent law -- and there was a good chance that AT&T's monkey business, if proven right, might invalidate the patent. .... When [Borovoy] arrived the next morning [after taking depositions] ... [he] was handed a note" [WE's] licensing manager would like to talk to you. [Instead of the 1.5 % of Intel's total sales demanded before, they settled for an Intel payment of $50,000 and a tiny fraction of one percent for use of AT&T forward portfolio. Borovoy was lead counsel not only for Intel but for eight other companies and got the same deal for them. Tim Jackson, Inside Intel Dutton: New York, 1997, pp. 126-9.